And yet MSIE still ruled the earth as a major pain in the foot in 2010, with a whooping 40% marketshare[0] (All versions of ie). It's only when chrome started d

And yet MSIE still ruled the earth as a major pain in the foot in 2010, with a whooping 40% marketshare[0] (All versions of ie). It's only when chrome started doing very aggressive advertising that people started to switch. MSIE worked for most people. The devs suffered how bad it was, but the people didn't see that because most of the web was designed for it. That's the kind of power you get when you are lead in marketshare. We see that nowadays with websites that only work in chrome (though it's less of a problem, chrome is a lot more open to standards, and the engine is open source). Concerning branding, I still see a lot of people that think the internet is that "e" icon on their desktop. Other people think chrome is the only gateway to the internet. It's the same situation as when IE6 was the lead. People don't know about alternatives, or don't care. Either way, if their "internet app" sucks, it's generally that internet sucks. [0] Using https://www.w3counter.com/trends https://www.w3counter.com/trends as a source, don't know how accurate it is but it does match my memory of how it all happened.