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IE6 was everything IE9 is, 10 years ago. IE9 will be everything IE6 is, 10 years from now.

It's orders of magnitude easier to develop something that works cross-browser today than it was ten years ago, even for quite advanced stuff. Back then, you basically had to develop two parallel sites (one for IE and one for NS) if you wanted it to do anything moderately fancy.

You still could easily find you need to, even with IE 8.

Sure, simple box positioning is easier and most of the stock jQuery UI library works fine, but it's precisely when you try to do anything moderately fancy that IE can quickly because a major hassle.

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