DISQUS

Thanks for the Snowball Effect mention. Keep in mind that the plugin has been improved and moved into DrDave's Spam Karma, and that's what I'm recommending that people use. It kicks major butt, and is actually turning into a reason for people to switch to WP.

Whenever I'm feeling blue, I put in a catchy Post Office Protocol tune and dance my troubles away! ;-)

Try this:
- Close all instances of Internet Explorer.
- Open up a Windows Explorer instance (My Computer or My Documents will do)
- Type a web address into the address bar
- Ctrl-Alt-Del and look for "iexplore.exe" in the list of running applications (you won't find it)
- Go back to the web site you conjured up... click Help -> About Internet Explorer
- Marvel at Internet Explorer's footprint of 0.00 MB of RAM

I spend a lot of time cleaning computers infested with viruses and spyware. 9 times out of 10 the user tells me all they do is surf the internet and check their e-mail on Hotmail or AOL. I tell them that if they don't want to have to hire me for my services again in a month, they should stop using IE. I don't get any repeat business from people who make the switch.

I'm also a web designer, and anyone says that IE is standards complaint is simply ignorant. min-width is a CSS2 tag. CSS2 was finalized in 1998. Doesn't work in IE. Try using a alpha-transparent PNG image in IE. You can't. PNG 1.0 was finalized in 1997.

IE 6.0 was lacking in security, standards compliance and features the day it came out.

Actually, it doesn't really mean that IE is a better parser. As you said, there aren't really any standards for garbage input. It just means that IE is a more liberal parser. You would argue that is a good thing. Others will argue it is a bad thing.

I don't think there is any doubt that you have a better chance of displaying a garbage page if you use IE... of course it is also true that you are more likely to create a garbage page if you code specifically for IE, as you won't realize you've erred.