Maybe I'm confused...
"There are so many instances of web pages rendering like crap in IE not because the browser was incapable of doing it, but because web devs (in general) just wrote crap pages for it." -- Are you saying that IE is conforming to other browser's standards here? I don't see how a user agent change would affect the rendering methods of IE. And as you say, it wouldn't be standard practice for someone to develop a page based on the User-Agent for browser detection that decides how to render a page. :S
I only mentioned it was being used for an information page. What other methods of browser detection would you recommend? :huh: