Most of the time spent trying to get CSS-based sites to look good is spent dealing with Internet Explorer bugs, issues and the fact that it implements CSS commands differently to other, standards-compliant browsers.
I am trying to tally up the damage; the wasted time and effort due to Microsoft's lax implementation of the standards twinned with its tactic of forcing every windows users to use it.
53 people have registered 3638 hours wasted.
$127330 in hourly fees ($35phr) pissed up the wall due to IEs bugs and lack of standards support.
232.906530 X 
- man-years
0.009095% X 
- the man-hours needed to make one of the Great Pyramids of Giza. (40,000,000 man-hours)
359.689266 X 
Dell Mini 9 netbooks($354 via google)
round-the-world trips for the cost of what IE has done. (~$1400)- robertjhunter wasted 16 Hours of their life dealing with IE and wrote: PNG transparency, caching issues, stupid layout...
- MattJubb wasted 32 Hours of their life dealing with IE and wrote: ARGHHHHHHHHH!
- colin.harrington wasted 32 Hours of their life dealing with IE and wrote: More Website hackish, crap just to get it to work in IE6 die IE6
- Nightgunner5 wasted 48 Hours of their life dealing with IE and wrote: mod_auth_digest. It works exactly one time per computer on IE. I eventually decided to block IE altogether.
- Nightgunner5 wasted 16 Hours of their life dealing with IE and wrote: <style>*{position:relative}</style><table><input></table> If only that would kill it permanently...
- terriblecabbage wasted 8 Hours of their life dealing with IE and wrote: <button>. :-|
- mmadrigal wasted 240 Hours of their life dealing with IE and wrote: thinking that for the last 5 years ive wasted about 70 hrs a year, meaning about 2 hrs per proyect and having 2 proyects a month, well...... damn you ie!
- terriblecabbage wasted 32 Hours of their life dealing with IE
- perryn.fowler wasted 120 Hours of their life dealing with IE and wrote: at least
- jerome.paul wasted 48 Hours of their life dealing with IE and wrote: Over the years it's probably way more than a week
TODOs - this site has quite literally been created while I was on the bus going home on 26/01/09 - so, it's not too pretty yet, and is missing stuff. My plans include:
- Letting you amend/delete logged hours
- Making the cost statistics show as bar charts, and have a much fuller list of equivalences.
- Have alternate means of showing the cost, like pages with the IE symbol eating a clockface for each hour wasted
- Rifle through the frustrations and give stats on those too
- Have a page dedicated to help - from the Holly Hack onwards.
Built by bosteen [a} g mail [dot] com, with ironically poor CSS style.