[dmethvin]

Yep, it really comes down to money. If you are running a consumer retail site that gets traffic from Fortune 500 employees buying stuff on their lunch hour, you will either support IE7 or lose business.

Sure IE7 has problems, but they are well known problems at this point. An experienced web designer should know how to deal with them to give IE7 users a degraded but functional experience.

[huskyr]

Sure IE7 has problems, but they are well known problems at this point. An experienced web designer should know how to deal with them to give IE7 users a degraded but functional experience.

True for most CSS bugs, but if you're doing lots of Javascript you might reach a point where IE7 just doesn't cope, especially if you're doing lots of Ajax stuff. Of course, you can probably hack something 'degraded', but it does take a lot of time and might lead to difficult code with lots of hacks.

[Tichy]

Ironically, those Fortune 500 employees are actually rather unfortunate.

[billpatrianakos]

Yeah, true. I just have this dream that all web developers will band together to stop supporting "problem" browsers forcing users and browser makers to fall in line. I mean, correct me if I come off as a spoiled brat but I think they should be making browsers to suit how we build sites and not how they want us to develop them.

[hello_moto]

That's a political struggle. Not just for browser but any area: control.