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Originally posted by vidocq
IE is a browser that instead of supporting standards, tries to define its own defacto standards by the idea that the grand majority of users use IE.
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IE and Mozilla are very similar in their CSS support in most respects. The one exception that really gives me problems is the way IE handles element padding and borders, as noted above. I don't think they deliberately diverged from the standard in that particular case, as there would be no benefit in implementing it incorrectly. It seems more likely that they misinterpreted the standard.
As for the many extra features IE has, a lot of them are for Windows HTA Host (a platform for Windows applications written in HTML and VBScript or JavaScript) and not for standard HTML documents requested from an HTTP server.