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Re:What will a Chromium-only Web look like? by p_l on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @07:34AM (#31834630)
They also definitely advanced the CSS more than Netscape.

modern DOM, Ajax, modern CSS, bunch of other small details of JS, all iirc came from IE.

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Re:What will a Chromium-only Web look like? by scotty79 on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @07:47AM (#31834777)
Development between IE4 and 5.5 was massive.
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Re:What will a Chromium-only Web look like? by paol on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @08:04AM (#31834935)
You and the grandparents are thinking of a slightly earlier time. Yes IE jumped over Netscape massively in technical terms. Then Netscape died an MS, having mission accomplished, basically stopped touching the browser.
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Re:What will a Chromium-only Web look like? by layer8 on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @09:37AM (#31835832)
The problem wasn’t per se that MS stopped (having a stable platform that doesn’t change continuously is in principle a good thing), it was most of all the many quirks, inconsistencies and bugs that IE had.
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Re:What will a Chromium-only Web look like? by fullstop on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @01:18PM (#31838937)
Even among browsers with the same version numbers! I recall array.push or array.pop missing on some Windows PCs with identical IE6 versions. It had to do with the upgrade path that the PC took.
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