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Two words: Internet. Explorer.

The number of man-hours wasted on working around IE bugs probably counts in the billions.

Are these bugs fairly common? Is there no way of writing an IE "spell checker" - meaning that you throw code at it and it makes it IE compatible?

There are these days. Tools like jQuery and CSS Reset help normalize some issues, but some persist. See: IE haslayout bug

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