Quote - OH I forgot to mention that Renderosity FRONT PAGE - the large product ads with the blue buttons underneath ARE NOT CLICKABLE to go to the product anymore in IE!!  Both myself and my friend tried to use it today to click a product and it would NOT respond! BUT in Chrome, I got the hand and the ability to click over to the product page.  It seems the programmers REALLY hate IE ?  This is not good... I would give up Chrome if this site ever starts working properly in IE again... for now, I use Chrome ONLY for this site. I like it, in some ways, but mainly it's the utter RELIEF that I can actually use the site here again! 

I do Front End Development for a major retailer.   Developers disliking IE has a lot to do with bugs in the IE client, as well as Microsofts lack of following HTML Standards.  For each edition of IE you have to support below 9, you are likely adding hours of development time, as well as increasing your code base with client specfic code.

Some of the older IEs simply do not do certain things well (or at all), like Drop Shadows, Rounded Corners, and transparency.  This means that IE 6,7,8 will get a much different visual layout in some cases.

Additionally, JavaScript parsing and execution is slow in IE in many cases, limiting what interactive features you can do without really slowing down page rendering. 

Depending on the design, working with IE can be very very difficult.  Still however, it has a sizable market share (depending on geo-region and site topic) and should be supported.  This of course, causes a increase to development time, testing and bug fixes.  It would help the developers quite a bit if Microsoft didn't force some sites to be rendered with IE 7 standards, even if that person is using IE 8+.  A lot of the 'weird' layout issues commonly seen on the web are a result of that exceptionally poor choice.