I’ve just spent six hours of my life trying to figure out a way around the IE missing-images bug, and I’ve had no luck at all. There’s some combination of (presumably correct) CSS and MS-specific extensions that are causing the images to display partially or not at all.

I *did* find pages and pages of hacks to get around the mistakes in IE’s rendering engine.

I also came across an interesting allegation that says IE has been triple-dipping on image loads, making it look as though IE’s popularity is much higher than it actually is by registering more server hits than are actually needed to render a page.

I woudn’t doubt it. I’ve always found those high numbers to be very suspicious.

Damn you, Redmond, for foisting such a malfunctioning, non-compliant, MS-bound piece of crap like IE on an unsuspecting public. And if it turns out that the only reason we’ve been biting our tongues and adding workarounds for your busted code is because you artificially inflated the usage stats, well, that’s good too. The repercussions will be *very* entertaining.

For now, though, either get Firefox or keep holding down the “Shift” key while you click the thumbnails. I’ll figure something out eventually.