Why does IE make such goodness-awful (sic) buttons in HTML?

[scubak1w1]

Why does IE make such goodness-awful (sic) buttons in HTML?

Here is my code:

[HTML]
<button name="submit" value="submit" type="submit">
<br />
Try the<br />
<strong>(&beta; ) George Ver</strong><br />
'Web Map'<br /><br />
<img src="/images/logos/mapserver.gif" alt="MapServer logo" /><br />
<br />
</button>
[/HTML]

Looks just fine in Firefox, Opera, Safari, etc - nice, thin blue border with a sense of some style... :-)

BUT in any flavour of IE the button borders are hugely "pixelated" like something off an '80s Atari!! Just plain BUTT ugly... :-( and the mouse over shows a similar "pixelated" (sic) ugliness, just highlighted in a different colour

Help!
GREG...

[harshmaul]

I hate it that IE can't even acknowledge those things supplied by microsoft.

Another one is how the beta IE8 renders hotmail.... its stupid!!

The best advice i have for you is to either do it using CSS or using javascript.

[Plater]

That code looks identical to me in both FF and ie6, plain jane dumb looking gray button. (Note, the image didn't load because I don't have full url)

[harshmaul]

windows XP theme......