[smitjel]

Awesome points. But keep in mind though that the IE team has really stepped up lately with IE9. IE will no longer be this cancer to web devs anymore. Let's stop wasting the time to make old IE "look pretty" and help people move forward and update (as best they can). Again, good points though.

[semanticist]

IE8 isn't 'old' IE, it's 'current' IE. It will definitely be good if in the future IE supports CSS3 properly, but if you're making or supporting something today, you need to make it work on the browsers people are actually using today.

And for most markets, that's IE, and frequently not even IE8.

[lojjic]

Absolutely, excellent point. IE9 is promising to be an excellent browser. Once it comes out we should absolutely encourage people to upgrade. The day PIE is obsolete will be a very happy day. :)