Working on webpages is sort like a love-hate relationship. On one hand, it makes you feel awesome when your page is well received and looks really nice. On the other hand accommodating your page to deal with what piece of garbage the IE browser renderer is, is what makes most people run away from webpage design. Webpage making may seem easy at first, but it's fickle with it's own rules and irrational reasons for why it moves images and spacing.
Having done some of this before, if everyone thinks IE acting fickle over HTML & CSS is bad. Wait until they get to Javascript... or should I say Jscript. Jscript is basically a black box attempt by Microsoft to emulate Javascript. Unfortunately, seeing how well the IE browser renders HTML and CSS, you can guess what a mess Jscript is. In addition, I've been hearing recently that because Javascript is planning on adding classes and some nice aspects of Python, Microsoft's Jscript team has been caught unawares so they've been spreading nasty rumors about Javascript's new version. It's all one big flame fest in the forums now between the Javascript team and the Jscript team. This should be interesting...
Moreover, one thing that should be interesting to show to the class, how badly IE messes up css implementation by just having it run through the acidtest. It's ridiculous how off they are compared to most browsers out there. I'm almost tempted to write javascript code to redirect anyone coming to my site using IE to the firefox download page.
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