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"IE". Difficult to search for what that means.
by ZacharyPitts 6y ago
"IE". Difficult to search for what that means.
- VLM 6y agoInternet Explorer. A much maligned legacy browser for legacy windows desktop platforms. Aside from being intensely maligned and full of security holes, it doesn't (or didn't?) support WebRTC. So being called IE is sarcastic like ha ha if you're so concerned about security downgrade to IE which doesn't support WebRTC.
- kroltan 6y agoI don't think that's what the poster meant by "They got called IE". IE is notable for - along with the things you mentioned - being about a decade behind in web specification support and taking non-standard approaches to whatever features it did have. The implication being in this case that people were calling Safari too "conservative", so to speak.
- olliej 6y agoThe "safari is the new ie" is basically any time apple doesn't implement a web spec it's because they're trying to kill the web, and the privacy complaints are nonsense that doesn't matter. All that matters is developers having shiny new toys.