There isn’t a serious standards-focused web developer on the planet who hasn’t had irritating troubles with Internet Explorer. We’ve finally reached a point where IE on the Mac is largely irrelevant thanks to Safari and Firefox. Versions of IE on Windows older than 6 are also marginalized for the most part. However, even though IE6 offers decent standards support, it is filled with behavior from the bizarre to the downright idiotic (and everything in between, of course). I could list dozens upon dozens of these issues, and such bugs as “double margin” and “peek-a-boo” are just two well-named examples.

I promised to round up the Big Dance and I keep my promises. So here we go:

If we completely ignore the fact that I’m writing this post at roughly 7:00pm on April 5th, then we can all celebrate the official (though rather “soft”) launching of joelschou.com as well as my birthday—both of which took place yesterday. I promised myself that I would put this forever-in-development website online on 4/4, whether it was done or not. And I did. And it isn’t even close. Whoops.