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Oh, and: as someone who was doing a huge amount of web development between 1995 and 2000, I can confirm that IE took the lead in version 3 because it better in
by yoz 7y ago
Oh, and: as someone who was doing a huge amount of web development between 1995 and 2000, I can confirm that IE took the lead in version 3 because it better in almost every way than Netscape. I spent ages trying to persuade Netscape versions 3 and 4.* to render HTML correctly and not crash.
I'm not saying that Netscape's engineers did a poor job, because web pages are hard to render correctly. (No, not just because of badly-formed HTML.) I'm saying that IE, for whatever reason, was faster, more stable and more correct.
- zerotolerance 7y agoIE took the lead with v4 because it was shipped with Win95 sp2.5 and Win98 v1. There was a lawsuit about it and everything. More importantly, web users dont know or care which browser renders sites "more correctly." They did understand which sites could and could not make a page that worked in either. They probably did care about crashes. But they also cared about security vulnerabilities created by the other inappropriate applications of postel's law for which Microsoft remains famous.