I follow a lot of web design sites and I have started to see some sites with a note at the bottom of their site to the effect: "We will no longer support a browser that doesn't support web standards." and they simply don't code for a screwed up box model or the rest of the annoyances of IE. Of course, their audience is more tech savvy so they probably have an 80% non-IE browser base to begin with.

As long as we're ranting, the funniest thing I hear from customers is that we had a meeting and we all agreed on IE as the corporate standard for security reasons. I always laugh out loud thinking about that meeting and how they ended up choosing IE at the end of it. I wonder if they are telling me the truth about the meeting. They probably just said, "Hey I noticed IE comes installed on Windows, so let's just have everyone use that. Will save IT time to install a 'real' browser."

yeah, and that saved time is payed back later because IE makes trouble after trouble.

BTW Internet Explorer is a good example how market dominance leads to bad products... MS pre-installs IE with windows, so there absolutely no need for them to make a good browser. It just has to work somehow, and they can be sure that the majority of users will not use anything else.

...and BTW I dream of an "we do not longer support IE" event where 90% of all important sites on the web agree to a day from when they do not support IE any longer :-)