>>>> you need to develop a special site just for IE.
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>>>That statement had a fair amount of merit up through IE7.
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>>>I develop web database applications as my primary job - Using IE9 and 10 in standards mode makes them work at least as well as they do in Chrome. Firefox seems to lag farther behind with each release.
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>>>We take cross browser compatibility seriously. Our apps run in IE and Chrome seamlessly before they go out for testing. Aside from a few minor CSS differences, we have no issues developing apps that work in both w/o any special handling.
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>>Its nice to know they implemented html4.1 right finally.
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>>I don't even test or support html5 in IE. There's no point.
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>I don't test or support HTML5 in anything. I'll wait until 2014 when HTML5 standard is complete. I don't base business app on beta/test versions of software or standards.

So, it'll be official in 2014, and what, MS will be complliant two years later about when everyones moved to Chromebooks, Kindles and iCrap.

I can do awesome stuff now with real web browsers (Chrome/Safari being supreme).