I believe IE 6+, are perfect. The are functioning exactly as designed to prevent web apps from competing with Microsoft's bread and butter desktop apps. They do

I believe IE 6+, are perfect. The are functioning exactly as designed to prevent web apps from competing with Microsoft's bread and butter desktop apps. They do that by forcing developers to choose between writing non-standard stuff that ties them to Microsoft or increasing my development costs by supporting their weirdness + the standards. To me this article misses the point, things like progressive enhancement is part of the extra cost/complexity that I have to absorb when I don't choose Microsoft. Every time I have to do ANYTHING beyond following the recent standards to the letter, Microsoft has succeeded with their strategy of forcing me to choose them or raising my cost to compete with them. Yes there are a bunch of techniques that can help once you choose to absorb the cost, but how I am a crappy developer or a whiner for not cheerfully accepting the burden?