Difficult as it is to believe, this is not a troll.
I believe you (but don't tell anyone :-) )
Now, I agree completely about the security risks. That alone is worth dumping the browser for. Yet, I want to find out how exactly is IE falling short of the DOM specs for e.g. Apart from some pet complaints about PNG support, div border width calculation and default styles (which actually is different for almost all browsers 'cos I believe no standards ever defined what the browser defaults should be), I have not been able to find a list of items that IE falls short of. It would be really educational if there's one out there.
Not many charts around, as we have plenty enough to do just killing IE/win bugs, so you'll only find bits and pieces here and there.
Most of CSS2/2.1 is, or are about to be, implemented in what I call "the good browsers". None of them are flawless or even implementing everything in exactly the same way, but they are pretty close to each other and to my own understanding of these W3C standards. IE6 is not up to CSS1 yet, and some of its implementation is too buggy and unpredictable to compare to any standard-- or understanding thereof.
http://dean.edwards.name/ may give you an idea of what web-designers would like to see in IE6 right away-- without all the extra code. A lot of that stuff doesn't work properly in XP-SP2 with "High Security"... so.
Personally, I'd like to see max/min width/height implemented, so I didn't have to use non-standard code-- IE-expressions or regular javascript. This is a "must" for controlling fluid designs, but Microsoft shut out even their own alternatives with the new SP2 and "H.S.". Nice move...
The rest is "not all that important" to me-- at the moment, as I can always find a way around it, or leave it out. However, as I have to leave more and more out because the good browsers can follow up on more and more for each version they launch, while IE6 isn't upgraded at all (just patched a bit), the gap grows wider and wider between "what can be done" and "what most visitors get to see".
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