Re:Chrome is not the new IE
by cloudwizard on Sunday August 30, 2020 @06:18PM
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When IE6 was king, there was no hope on horizon. IE6 came out in 2001, Chrome did not come out until 2008.
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Mozilla was there.
Re:Chrome is not the new IE
by ineedasername on Sunday August 30, 2020 @06:44PM
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I'm guessing them mean in terms of anything likely to actually unseat IE. Netscape->Mozilla->Firefox had been around years and were still only minor players ~20% market share. Chrome on the other hand saw nearly instant hockey-stick growth. I remember I switched almost instantly after a quick try and everything was so much faster.
How about Netscape communicator (I used it since 2003), then Firefox (first release was in 2004)?
There was Opera, as well.
But with all of these, you constantly ran into IE-only websites. Which got away with it because most people were running IE.
And that's why people are saying that Chrome is the new IE - because we're seeing that history repeating, with websites written only for and tested only on Chrome and Safari (and I doubt Safari would be anywhere if it weren't effectively forced onto iOS users).