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Yeah agreed, although you could almost say the same thing about devs who started in the early Firefox era and how they have no frame of reference for the awful Netscape 4.x pain that IE 4-6 made go away...

And somehow IE5.5 was even worse. There was a brief period whereby CSS was becoming more popular and the recommended approach for layouts (_"tables are for tabulated data, not layouts"_), but IE5.5 still had enough market share to warrant trying to make it _somewhat_ work with the div/CSS based layout. Ugh.

Yes. IE9 was an improvement over IE8, which was a big improvement over IE7, which was a huge improvement over IE6. I don't have experience before that, but my understanding of history is that things were even worse before IE6.