We are trying to estimate this:
If you are a web developer, how many hours per week do you spend working on IE related issues and bugs, where other browsers dont find any problems at all.
We're trying to find out if developers still waste a lot of time on it.
I know it's difficult to estimate, but even % would help..
I spend ~3h each week trying to make websites work on IE as it supposed to be..
This will probably be closed but I spend anywhere between 3-6 hours a week getting our web application to work properly with IE6/7/8. Less than an hour to get everything working in Opera/Firefox/Chrome/Safari.
Each of those browsers offers some sort of built in debugging capability. I absolutely love debugging in Chrome and Safari because the developers made it so easy to inspect problematic pieces of code.
IE doesn't have a useful inbuilt debug platform and has no regard for standards. Best solution I've seen to cutting costs is to simply block IE altogether. Running the cost analysis on man hours spent debugging IE and the number of customers you loose by blocking IE is almost 1:1.
This question has been answered once and for all by a scientific research whose results can be seen in this diagram:
http://www.avivhadar.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/webdesign1.jpg
