I dislike IE6 as much as the next guy (more probably), but people should stop harping on Microsoft like this. IE6 created the first version of AJAX. It had bro

I dislike IE6 as much as the next guy (more probably), but people should stop harping on Microsoft like this. IE6 created the first version of AJAX. It had browser based drawing primitives ages before anyone else. It turns out that IE filters were capable of CSS transforms all this time and nobody even realized it. IE6 was innovative when it was released, at a time when the competition was simply inferior. It's unfortunate that it took Microsoft so long to release IE7, and it certainly has caused significant pain, but realize that it's not as black and white as people make it out to be.