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Nah, IE on Windows was the best browser around for a while. People wrote stuff that only worked on it cause it had the most stuff to target. Remember the debacl
by majormajor 6y ago
Nah, IE on Windows was the best browser around for a while. People wrote stuff that only worked on it cause it had the most stuff to target. Remember the debacle that was Netscape trying to come out with anything newer than Navigator 4?
But if you were on a Mac or Linux system... you had some issues. Mac IE was not the same as Windows IE, and Linux didn't have one.
So Chrome at least is on more platforms.
- extra88 6y agoWhen IE5 for Mac was released 20 years ago, it was the best web browser, period. But it was the last version Microsoft made for Mac, IE6 was Windows-only. While IE6 might have been better overall than IE5 on either platform, IE stagnated, Apple made their own browser to supplant IE5, and Mozilla created Firefox to replace Netscape (and there was Opera which never had much market share but was still influential on other browsers).