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He was a competitive person, he was driven to succeed. For a while there it was (sadly) the case that Internet Explorer 6 was the best browser. Netscape droppe
by astrodust 10y ago
He was a competitive person, he was driven to succeed. For a while there it was (sadly) the case that Internet Explorer 6 was the best browser.
Netscape dropped the ball, ironically they were slow to pick up on open standards. Their JavaScript implementation was notoriously buggy, that alone probably held back development of the modern web by almost a decade. They were also trying to monetize the browser itself which slowed uptake considerably.
Netscape dug their own grave on this one. Microsoft just pushed them into it.
Now don't get me wrong, Internet Explorer 6 turned out to be a serious scourge, and Microsoft has done some very, very dirty things, but their actions in that particular era did two things: Made browsers free for consumers and laid the foundation for AJAX because of their quirky XMLHttpRequest stub meant to help Outlook run in the browser.