I don't think that IE6 was actually evil, although Microsoft paid scant disregard to anything resembling a web standard. The problem was probably more that by

I don't think that IE6 was actually evil, although Microsoft paid scant disregard to anything resembling a web standard. The problem was probably more that by the time IE6 came along Microsoft just no longer cared about the browser, and let entropy take its toll in the form of all sorts of popups, malware infestations and security crevasses. By the time they got a clue it was too late, and all the folks that mattered had moved to other browsers.