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A comment on Popular Websites Displayed in IE 5. Parent comment

Re:Popular Websites Displayed in IE 5 by LekkoscPiwa on Monday April 29, 2013 @06:45PM (#5629352)
I think that you are confusing backwards/forwards compatibility with the point the OP seemed to be making: Microsoft never bothered to follow the web standards.
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Re:Popular Websites Displayed in IE 5 by magic_haze on Monday April 29, 2013 @11:09PM (#5630222)
Agreed, but... the standards themselves have changed since 1999.
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Re:Popular Websites Displayed in IE 5 by LekkoscPiwa on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @04:38AM (#5631016)
Yeah, it seems Microsoft always has had good excuses. I wonder if other browsers from that period would have as poor results as IE5 does. I seriously doubt it.
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Re:Popular Websites Displayed in IE 5 by yuhong on Wednesday May 01, 2013 @02:56AM (#5636829)
Well the main competitor was Netscape 4, which was even worse.
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Re:Popular Websites Displayed in IE 5 by LekkoscPiwa on Thursday May 02, 2013 @06:41AM (#5643565)
What exactly was worse in Netscape? Because I just loved using it.
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Re:Popular Websites Displayed in IE 5 by yuhong on Thursday May 02, 2013 @02:07PM (#5646206)
It's extremely bad and buggy CSS support, which was even worse than even IE4, let along IE5.
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