I find the article to be pretty lineant, or amusingly silent, on "why" IE technologies never got adopted or standardized. I am old enough to remember the time

I find the article to be pretty lineant, or amusingly silent, on "why" IE technologies never got adopted or standardized. I am old enough to remember the time where VML and the others were invented. And at this time "Open Source" was still called by Microsoft a "cancer", and Linux users frightened for patent violation every 2 month by MS. It would have been insane to re-implement or standardized anything coming from Microsoft at this time, leading you for sure in front of a judge for patent infringement... Anything coming from Microsoft was radioactive due to stupid political decisions and aggressive patent & IP attitude. This is sad, and cause us to loose 10 years in the web evolution, reinventing the wheel many many times. Without even consider the millions of hours of engineering wasted to fight with broken HTML compatibilities, locked-in technologies (flash, Sliverlight, ActiveX, Vbscript) and continuously deprecated proprietary APIs.