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> It didn’t matter if I was using the market-dominating behemoth that was Netscape Navigator or the scrappy, fringe-niche new kid Internet Explorer: very little
by goto11 5y ago
> It didn’t matter if I was using the market-dominating behemoth that was Netscape Navigator or the scrappy, fringe-niche new kid Internet Explorer: very little seemed to line up with the specification, and almost nothing worked consistently across the browsers.
Well I remember a significant difference in the early years of CSS. Netscape Navigator would frequently crash when encountering perfectly valid CSS while IE at worst would render it weirdly. Netscapes habit of crashing probably set back CSS adoption for several years, since you couldn't even introduce CSS as an optional enhancement.
I know a whole generation of designers loathe IE, but this is noting compared to the hate designers felt towards Netscape in the early years!
- hulitu 5y ago> Well I remember a significant difference in the early years of CSS. Netscape Navigator would frequently crash when encountering perfectly valid CSS while IE at worst would render it weirdly. Netscapes habit of crashing probably set back CSS adoption for several years, since you couldn't even introduce CSS as an optional enhancement. It was the right thing to do. CSS and javascript just slow down the computer and run malware.
- Boltgolt 5y agoThat's a hot take. Pretty impressive that you're able to ignore decades of innovation and increased accessibility to tools because of JS & CSS.
- phist_mcgee 5y agoAh RMS! Cool of you to drop by...