Dan

If I were in the business of supporting or training people, I would 
probably follow your lead.  But, as a user not beholden to anyone but 
myself, I follow that if something works for me, why change.
When a website or something seems not to give me what I want or need, 
then I move to an alternate browser for that; and, yes, over time, the 
migration is away from IE for me.
But if IE allows me to do something better than something else for me, it 
would be foolish to throw out the baby with the bathwater.
Yes, for someone new or who requires handholding, then what you advocate 
is the way to go.
But the beauty here is that one size needn't fit all; and I use technology 
to get done what I need or want to get done and I'm not in thb business of 
learning technology for it's own sake.
As you might guess, I am not an early adopter, in most instances, and the 
reason for that is that, in the past, when I followed that approach, I was 
spending more time mastering new stuff than using it.
If one makes a living by serving customers or advising others, then, yes, 
what you say makes a lot of sense both for the user and the advisor as it 
allows you to be more ifficient not having to customize solutions.  

It's nothing more than a perspective.
And, I would be the first to agree that IE's days are numbered; but 
probably the same could be said for Firefox and Chrome as almost all 
software seems to face
eventualy becoming obsolete.

As an illustration of how this evolution has evolved in my online life, I, 
for a long time avoided Chrome.
Then, when I couldn't get MLB's Gameday Audio to function smoothly with 
Firefox and IE, I was forced to Chrome.
Once I began using Chrome for that, I discovered other things that it 
seems to work better for me in doing.
So, right now, all 3 browsers have a place in my browsing life subject to 
change, of course.
And each seems to handle special things in a way I am most comfortable or 
efficient with. 

I certainly wouldn't advise a new to browsers person to adopt that 
approach -- and, quite honestly, I would be the wrong person to advise 
someone like that. 


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