We missed out in using these features in part because we were too concerned with making pixel perfect copies of designs that had to look exactly the same in eve

We missed out in using these features in part because we were too concerned with making pixel perfect copies of designs that had to look exactly the same in every browser because that is what our clients signed off on. This was in the days before responsive and all our time was spent fiddling with margins and padding to get things pixel perfect. There was no scope to take a step back and play with some of this Microsoft technology. Invariably the cast in stone designs were PDF drawings from Photoshop where the art was in second guessing what the designer was thinking of and where they stole their influences from. You could not implement a table in a cool way on MS IE and in a more boring way on the other browsers, knowledge was just not there or the space to experiment.