Excuse me but I've been burnt by IE6 and have the scars to prove it. Monopolies and monocultures are bad news anywhere, like in my city of Winnipeg where we ha

Excuse me but I've been burnt by IE6 and have the scars to prove it. Monopolies and monocultures are bad news anywhere, like in my city of Winnipeg where we have one of the largest elm canopies in the world which is expected to disappear in the next 10 years due to disease and infection. Yes, during IE6's heyday, we designed for its quirks. When we moved on, we built standards-based code and then broke it to run in the lingering IE6, 7, 8... I'm not really sure exactly what you're getting it. None of what you say is false, but if Google gets a certain share of the market, they won't care at all if Firefox goes along with it or not. That's what I'm afraid of.