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Not really. The problem with IE6 was that it didn't implement web standards as they should have, so developers had to to a lot of hacks and tricks to have their
by geolgau 8y ago
Not really. The problem with IE6 was that it didn't implement web standards as they should have, so developers had to to a lot of hacks and tricks to have their websites compatible with all browsers. And IE6 was non-compliant with the HTML standards from the start if I remember well: I had a small website that looked good in IE/Netscape/Opera, but when IE6 was out a lot of people started complaining that my backgrounds would not be positioned as they were in Opera/Netscape and all sorts of things like that.
- avar 8y agoSure. It wasn't perfect, all browsers sucked in different ways back then. Mozilla was slow as hell, IE6's CSS support was amazing etc. This was in 2001 and XP had just been released. My point is that whatever the state was back then what followed couldn't have happened if IE6 was open source. Mozilla could have simply built it as part of Firefox, shipped it as a legacy rendering mode, and nobody would have had Windows or IE6 lock-in to use some legacy website.