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Re:Microsoft is killing off the Internet Explorer brand by FireBeyond on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @08:39PM (#9222751)
Leaving aside the greater Windows thing, let's be honest - all the major browsers in that era basically said FU to the standards and raced ahead deploying their own stuff. There was greater interplay between the non-IE browsers, but that was because of marketshare and grim realities. Every browser was guilty of releasing features and functions that were "Best viewed in Browser X"
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Re:Microsoft is killing off the Internet Explorer brand by badsock on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @09:34PM (#9223023)
Sure, Netscape Corp. did, and good riddance.

But the Mozilla Foundation was founded in between IE6 and IE7 and, if I recall correctly, their stand on a standards-based web was there from the get-go. They fought a war, against Microsoft in particular, and were starting to win by the time Chrome came in and cemented the victory.

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