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Re:Apple's claim is that it bans other browsers for security by toast0 on Monday June 27, 2022 @01:14PM (#31897590)
IE 4 and 6 were decent to good compared to competitors when released (although, IIRC, neither had ftp support?). What sucked was that they stagnated at that point in time while also becoming dominant. IE 5 for mac was well regarded, but I don't have personal memories.

None of the future IEs were very good though, IMHO.

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Re:Apple's claim is that it bans other browsers for security by MBCook on Monday June 27, 2022 @02:29PM (#31898642)
That’s my memory. I remember IE being a great browser.

It’s only what MS let happen later that turned IE into the pariah it is today.

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Re:Apple's claim is that it bans other browsers for security by saratogacx on Monday June 27, 2022 @05:39PM (#31901208)
At the time you didn't need to ship ftp with IE. You could load up an FTP site by opening up an FTP address in explorer. You didn't get the familiar html-netscape-like interface but you could navigate an FTP site like it was just a network folder.
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