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I'm slightly confused by the combination of "introduced in Internet Explorer 5.5" and "offers a powerful new way" being written in an article posted on August
by jflowers45 9y ago
I'm slightly confused by the combination of "introduced in Internet Explorer 5.5" and "offers a powerful new way" being written in an article posted on August 28, 2017
- enb 9y agoFTA: cough OK, obviously it’s 2017 and Internet Explorer 5.5 isn’t relevant anymore. But if you’re a Web developer, this should have given you some pause for thought. The modern Web Components pillars: Templates, Custom Elements, Shadow DOM, and Imports, were all features originally in IE5, released in 1999.
- abritinthebay 9y agoIt was a truly great release.
- detritus 9y agohaha, it really was too, no hint of sarcasm! Young'uns these days probably can't believe what a saviour Microsoft from the clusterfudge that Navigator represented back then. . Typed on Firefox :)
- abritinthebay 9y agoOh no, I agree. IE got its bad reputation due to neglect, not because it originally wasn’t good. It just wasn’t good enough to last 10 years without updates
- colordrops 9y agoIs that really true? IE 5.5 had shadow Dom?
- TazeTSchnitzel 9y agoYes, it's described by the article.
- nimchimpsky 9y agoDid you even read the article ?
- flomo 9y agoTo a great degree, "modern web standards" are an exercise in reinventing proprietary Microsoft stuff from the 1990s. (Or replacing some thing that Java or Flash had done for years.)