Not only does IE render things bad, it renders inconsistently. For example, I am working on a design. I go through my typical program of checking browser compatibility.
This is what it SHOULD look like (FF3, click to enlarge):
It works perfectly in IE8 (click to enlarge):
So far so good.
I open IE7 in a virtual machine. I am dumbfounded. It looks terrible:
I need IE6 Compatibility for this project so I was dreading opening up the IE6 virtual machine. It looks PERFECT (well, there wasn’t PNG transparency and the navigation was 1 pixel off, but that’s not bad!):