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Tell that to the people that have wasted thousands upon thousands of man-hours because of IE. Surely if the history of IE had been written differently the web w

Tell that to the people that have wasted thousands upon thousands of man-hours because of IE. Surely if the history of IE had been written differently the web would probably be a few years ahead of where we are at right now.

mishmash 16y ago
And for most, those hours were passed on to clients, so there's probably some meta-comment about impact to the economy that IE has had.
- snowmaker 16y ago
  No, that is the "Broken Window" fallacy. A common fallacy in economics: http://freedomkeys.com/window.htm http://freedomkeys.com/window.htm
  - tl 16y ago
    It's only a broken window fallacy if the comment was implying that the impact was positive.