Microsoft Internet Explorer Bugs

Most clients still have Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 as required web platform and I have to support it for web applications. Being Microsoft Internet Explorer such a badly designed browser have lots problems that make developers do workarounds to make the code run and prevent any crashes on MSIE. Microsoft will support MSIE6 until 2014 so the future of web innovation is endangered by Microsoft.

This is a (growing) list of bugs of Microsoft Internet Explorer make my life harder:

• XMLHttpRequest MSIE Caching Bug
• createElement is broken in MSIE
• Many XMLHttpRequest related bugs like MSIE "crashes" on close of window.
• Lack of integrated spell checker for textareas. You can download ieSpell but you should be using Mozilla Firefox that already has integrated spell checker.
• Memory leaks in MSIE in circular references between JavaScript and DOM objects.
  

Web Bug Track is a great list of mostly MSIE bugs.

Please, STOP using Microsoft Internet Explorer NOW! or at least Bring Down MSIE6! Google is already taking steps by unsupporting MSIE6 soon. You may want to use IE6 Update to make your users upgrade.

Can Microsoft get any lower?