Why can’t Microsoft make Internet Explorer web standards compliant?

Did you know that many websites require special conditional CSS to coerce IE into displaying the content correctly? After all these years, they still haven’t gotten it right!

First you design your site for a standards compliant browser like Firefox or Opera, then you re-design all of the elements that IE doesn’t handle properly, save the hacks in a special CSS file, and then insert conditional code to load the hacked CSS, overiding the corect code, if your visitor happens to be using IE!

Then there’s the constant stream of security holes that allow all kinds of malware to get into your system as you browse the web. From a security standpoint, IE looks like swiss cheese! Sloppy programming at its finest.

For the love of Pete, does Microsoft ever code anything that works right?!

AAAAAAUUUURGH!