When will you stop using IE?

I am tired of making web applications work on IE. I can understand the frustration of this guy who created a pie chart for breakdown of time spent in web development. Making an application work on IE takes most of the time. Be it the issue of setting innerHTML of select or setting innerhtml or rows.

IE is for sure a non standards browser. Major problem is when all other browsers are following w3c standards, IE is still blowing its own trumpet. M*soft must realize now that gone are the days when IE had monopoly in the browser market.
IE has a long list of shortcomings such as little standards Compliance.IE was the only major browser to fail in the acid test in its public release.This test tells that neither IE6 nor IE7 even came close to passing the acid test.Other than that security is also a major concern. According to a study done by The Washington post Internet Explorer was unsafe for 284 Days in 2006 whereas Firefox only 9.
Another issue is regarding CSS and images. IE has issues with CSS selectors and other major problem is png alpha transparency. Transparency allows you to make a pixel in an image partially or completely transparent. No support in IE for that too.
Now some testing with IE. Do you know even a single line of code can crash IE. See the proof here.There are several other methods which you can see here and here

Take a look at IE Death March, Stop IE. No wonder developers now do not want to create application for IE anymore. This article at Digg has received 9899 diggs so far : Digg_this_if_you_re_tired_of_IE

So, what to do? Answer is simple : there many other better browsers available. Choose among them.
Firefox. Hundreds of plug ins and add-ons.
Chrome – Super fast.
Opera
Safari

Personally I do not wish to waste my time creating applications that does not work on IE. What about you? When will you stop using IE?

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