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 an

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.