aunteachrist I think you pretty well established what you think about IE in general.  I hope that you don't mind if some of the rest of think differently.

i never said that other people were not allowed to have their opinion. But being attacked, and called a troll because i have my opinion doesn't seem to be the two way street i know as freedom. But, i guess if you don't like something you should not say anything. i will take note, and report any and all offenders. And Savy, good buddy, what exactly, have you added, to this here thread?

Well this

and this

I know, not much, but then I have used IE in all it's versions on my computers and have no problems with it. 

Right, like you're gonna skin something......  

i thought, it was spanking the monkey, not a horse.

Well it's 'Beating a Horse to Death', which is kind of easy to understand, 'Spanking the Monkey', I'm not all the sure I want to know. 

It's actually called Beating a Dead Horse...and spanking the monkey is......uh...like...sex, minus one.

Oh well, can't be right all the time, but just once would be nice.

I might say that unlike you I talked about IE9.

'I don't use IE' doesn't say anything about IE9, since IE9 hasn't been released yet.

Therefore it has nothing to do with the topic at hand and is commonly known as thread crapping.

Obviously, I'm no mod, so I'm shutting up now at any rate.

Everyone is entitled to an opinion.  Sometimes it's not what you say but how you say it.  I really think we all understand that you personally don't like Internet Explorer.  We've got it.  Time to move on.  BTW some of us live in a Microsoft world.  That's just the way it is.  However, we don't go around bashing other people's choices. 

I have never liked Microsoft, they always seem to come up with over bloated software which are slow and a pain to use. Then along came IE 8 ,Windows 7 and Office 2010. Its amazing what a bit of competition can do. Looking forward to give IE 9 a go, who knows I might even like it.

Will be waiting for it to go out of beta first. For me installing IE9 in its beta stage is just asking for trouble.

Real SVG support, about bloody time.

Maybe they have their act together at last.

Now that IE9 has H.264 <video> support, it seems Firefox is the only one keeping Flash the king of web video. Blah.

Blah indeed. H.264 is so patent laden I doubt Mozilla will go down this track. VP8 maybe ... not as good but royalty free. The death of flash is at hand

Compared to the previous versions of IE, IE 9 is a tremendous leap forward. By the time it is finally released late this year or early next year, though, most of it's fancier features (graphics acceleration, wider array of HTML5/CSS3 standard support, etc.) will be matched by Firefox and Chrome, and the other modern browsers.

The big question is whether or not Microsoft will actually update IE 9 with new standards and features throughout it's life, or if they're going to just sit on their hands for another 2-3 years until they start all over with IE 10. The worst part of IE being the lowest common denominator on the web has been that IE versions are never upgraded; everyone has to wait for an entirely new numbered version to come along, to get any new features.

The other issue is that IE 9 won't be released for Windows XP, which is still installed on over 60% of the PCs around the world. So while IE 9 is great as a better browser, it won't change the browser market for quite some time, with all those people left on IE 8 for years to come.

The worst part in my opinion is how far behind the curve they were, even at launch.

I was excited when IE8 came out because of the new features, then I realized it was just as bog slow as every other version.  More than a little disappointing.

IE9 looks to change that...finally, something that actually exceeds expectations instead of just disappointing everyone.

As to Flash, it will undoubtedly be used less but I wouldn't expect it to die.  There's still plenty you can't do in HTML5 (protected content for one example.)  Hulu or any other legal streaming sites wouldn't be able to operate without that.

Hmm, did someone say other people were allowed to have their own opinions? No, no, no, that won't do At All. The only opinion that matters is MINE. Don't like that? Tough nookies...

Obviously...that was a joke.

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Or maybe it wasn't

On that note flash also won't die cause it'll take time to get rid of HTML4 browsers, for reasons already mentioned.