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Sure, that's possible, but not necessary. Devs might have been smart enough to stay away from extensions. Microsoft might have been smart enough to not push i
by meshko 10y ago
Sure, that's possible, but not necessary. Devs might have been smart enough to stay away from extensions. Microsoft might have been smart enough to not push it too hard. Your example of ActiveX actual supports that -- ActiveX never became super widespread, remaining a niche thing. Also keep in mind that this was only few years before OS X was released bringing the 2nd consumer desktop OS back onto the market.
- nixos 10y agoMicrosoft then had a near complete monopoly on anything computers. If you remember how Mozilla had to include all the IE6 mistakes all web programmers assumed were standard? And yes, back then definitely Microsoft was in EEE mode. They would do anything they possibly could do to keep the internet Windows only
- meshko 10y agoThey settled in 2001. OS X was released same year, signaling the beginning of the end of that monopoly.
- nixos 10y agoOSX had little market share. I mean, it still has a relatively small market. If you can save a week's work and make your site work on 97% of computers, or spend another week to get it to 99%, what would you do? And in truth, Mozilla/Opera/other HTML browsers had around 10 percent of marketshare even during the heydays of IE6's reign, and yet plenty of websites only worked on IE6. Would programmers care about those five percent of Mac users?
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