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I remember this time as well and it's not really true. They pushed a lot of proprietary features like ActiveX, but IE overall was far more sophisticated than Ne

by tootie 5y ago

I remember this time as well and it's not really true. They pushed a lot of proprietary features like ActiveX, but IE overall was far more sophisticated than Netscape. It really pushed DOM (albeit a hacky, proprietary DOM) as a way to dynamically manipulate pages. They also birthed XMLHTTP which was the original format for AJAX. Netscape was pretty Stone Age by comparison.

deaddodo 5y ago
Some new technologies that are now crucial to web standards were developed as a part of IE. But to say Netscape was “Stone Age” in comparison is disingenuous and/or a misremembering of the past. Especially the following 5 years after Netscape died; when the web stagnated on IE6 while Firefox and Safari slowly gained market share. IE had many issues supporting other crucial (and standard) technologies like CSS, images + alpha blending, basic ease of use features (tabs, accessibility, extensions), security (a good chunk of the ciphersuite was missing), etc.