Having spent all day writing Javascript for a nice reporting application I came to the dreaded moment when I started cross-browser testing. It's not that everything was broken, it's just that IE debugging Javascript is death by a thousand cuts, or a thousand little incompatibilities.
Aargh!
I'm in the process of setting up some Windows servers. I haven't really touched Windows as an OS in a number of years (linux and OS X mostly). I can't believe how horrible the interaction is, ESPECIALLY with IE. Holy crap, quit with all the popups about adding sites or whatever. It took me a dozen clicks after I typed in www.firefox.com just to get the page to load.
I'm amazed that people actually use IE, it's user experience seems like an experiment in cyber-torture.
I use OS X most of the time and Linux most of the rest of the time. Every time I go back to Windows to do something Microsoft finds a way of kicking me in the teeth.
John.
IE7 now has popup blocking, but it came years behind FF.
Of course, I also use Windows as little as possible, so IE isn't an option in most cases. And where it is an option, I prefer FF for the extensions anyway.
John.
John.
This was IE6 on Windows ME, understandably frustrating after Firefox 2/Safari on OS X.
What I did was start with IE, make it work, then "fix" it for FF, Opera, etc. Somehow that's less fretful than the other way around.
Cross-browser DOM programming will drive you to a good rant, for sure.