I consider Opera inferior to Firefox anyway; it's never been a serious contender. But to say many people consider IE 7 inferior to Opera is to say many people consider the sun to be a G-type star approximately 93 million miles from Earth. IE 7 is inferior to every 21st century browser, and frankly no version of IE was ever better than any other half-decent browser. In IE's prime, its CSS support was enthusiastic but badly broken, and it introduced a number of ridiculous custom tags as well as the concept of actually displaying a BMP image in the browser. For this justice still needs to be done.
Takha wrote:
Plus, sometimes I like to use the non-w3c tags provided by IE for interface reasons. [...] At the end of the day for all the mess iframes are, they can still do very unique things.

Quick question for you all, does IE 7's select tag respond to valid CSS?

I don't know what you're on about, claiming these to be IE tags (and non-standards compliant, at that). If you take a quick peek at W3Schools, you'll notice that both <iframe> and <select> are not deprecated (by HTML 4.01), and are both supported in Firefox.
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