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> Disagree. Developers were the ones that pushed Mozilla and then Firefox (and then Chrome) as soon as they could. No, the DOM put into IE was legitimately bet

by braveo 9y ago

> Disagree. Developers were the ones that pushed Mozilla and then Firefox (and then Chrome) as soon as they could. No, the DOM put into IE was legitimately better than that in the old NN. MS won that war because their browser was BETTER, period. They then sat on their laurels and the rest of the world passed them by, so now they're still trying to play catchup. But at the time? No, anyone who had any experience in the DOM of IE vs NN would hands down push IE. It was just better in every way.

toyg 9y ago
>the DOM put into IE was legitimately better than that in the old NN Where did I mention Netscape? I didn't. IE5 is from 1999, IE6 from 2001, and they were undoubtedly better than Navigator; but the first 0.x releases of Mozilla with the new Gecko engine are from late 2000/early 2001, and were better than IE (although the suite was slow and bloated). Firefox was branched out in 2002 and took off very quickly because it was a great engine without the bloat of full Mozilla. That's why people pushed it (or rather Phoenix) right off the bat. If you were pushing IE6 over Mozilla or Firefox in 2001/2002, you weren't paying attention. Navigator all but died in 1999.
- braveo 9y ago
  You may have your timelines incorrect then. By the time Mozilla and Firefox came around MS had already won that war and it was businesses who were making the decision to target IE, not developers. When developers were pushing IE was when it was IE vs NN.