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If both Mozilla and IE had the same rendering engine, I think this would be more harmful for cross-browser compatibility. We've only just convinced a lot of sites that they should be writing with "other" (non-IE) browsers in mind, so sending out the message that "as long as it works in Mozilla it's fine" seems like step back.

Sure, Mozilla is quite a lot more standards-compliant than IE, but the standards are still full of holes which cause differences in interpretation between browser developers about obscure things we won't see until it's too late.

I'd much rather that developers stick to keeping it simple and not trying to do anything wacky that tickles one of these poorly-documented regions of the specifications. There will be other browsers in future and I don't want to see them emulating bugs and quirks from browsers of the 90s.

I'm getting a bit of traffic from Tristan Louis, who wants us to replace IE with Mozilla. "While I am dreaming about this, the realist in me says that it will not happen." He's right, but I really like having people around like Tristan who dream an...

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