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Well, yes, Mozilla does render faster, but that's not really an issue for practical purposes.
The first cool thing that comes to mind is all the neat opacity stuff you can do in Mozilla. It supports all the alpha stuff in png files properly which gives you some neat options. It also supports a lot of CSS2 correctly. I use a little of this on my site, and as a consequence it does not render properly in IE on windows.
IE, on the other hand, still does not implement basic things like the CSS1 box model correctly. See here for more info.
http://www.tantek.com/CSS/Exampl…
I believe that IE6 will implement the box model correctly but only with a specific DOCTYPE declaration. I don't remember which one.
Yes, I have spent three days trying to get three different browsers to try and line everything up the same. That's why I really wish that all the browser vendors put as much effort into standards compliance as the Mozilla people do. If that were the case then I'd have to spend a lot less time dealing with these issues.
Now, again, none of this is in reference to NN4.x, which was just overwhelmingly bad. I agree that it's certainly not worth anyone's time to code for it anymore.
But as I noted before, a lot of sites that claim to only work with IE will actually work just fine with Mozilla too. When I started working on NT, for example, it would only allow IE, when in fact it worked perfectly for me in Mozilla.