"New" IE8 Issues with Apple Site?

As a diehard PC user who just recently purchased an iPod Touch, I am spending a lot more time on the Apple site than in the past. I am having nothing but problems with the main Apple site when I access via IE8. The main page takes forever to load up, then mouse clicks go unnoticed or take forever to respond to. Once I get beyond the Apple home page, things start to improve but a couple of odd errors from time to time. For instance, I was accessing this forum via Firefox, then decided that I wanted to do the same side by side with IE8. Obviously, no issues with any Apple site and Firefox whatsoever. On IE8, when I went to "Login", even after logging out on Firefox, it said that the page didn't exist.
If I didn't know better, I would think that Microsoft and Apple don't get along All kidding aside, do I have to spend the rest of my life accessing Apple's Web site via Firefox, or can I use IE8 like I do for every other site that I access (yes, I have no other problems with any other sites that I access via IE8, except for Apple's).
Thanks.

mlb32704 wrote:
As a diehard PC user .... Obviously, no issues with any Apple site and Firefox whatsoever.
So now you get a feel for how the rest of us live, eh?
I understand how you feel, but Apple clearly doesn't give any consideration to all the hacks required to make Internet Explorer behave. They just code to the web standards that were published about 10 years ago. Having done a moderate amount of web development I can tell you that Firefox and Safari render and behave virtually identically. All version of Internet Explorer require some sort of hacking to make work. I have three separate CSS files I include with my web sites (ie6.css, ie7.css, and ie8.css) that contain distinct sets of hacks to make pages that look perfect in Safari and Firefox look somewhat decent in IE. You would think that the number of hacks would decrease as the IE version number increases, wouldn't you? Sorry. Each version has its own distinct bugs. If there is any web site in the world that shouldn't have to deal with that, it is apple.com. If you don't want to use Firefox, try Safari for Windows.

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