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Yep. IE took off not just because of Microsoft's position as the default browser, but because Netscape totally sucked on Windows. I'd switched to IE2 because th
by Firehawke 5y ago
Yep. IE took off not just because of Microsoft's position as the default browser, but because Netscape totally sucked on Windows. I'd switched to IE2 because the Netscape build my ISP offered was horrible and constantly crashed.
- x0x0 5y agoYeah, I've literally spent months of my life hunting the html sequences causing netscape to crash. It was viscerally loathed by my team. Particularly the fragility around tables... good thing it was hilariously fragile with css too! You can still see remnants of some of it online, eg this http://old.macedition.com/cb/nn4crashers/index.html http://old.macedition.com/cb/nn4crashers/index.html We were early to the idea of shipping professional apps via the browser, and it was a choppy beginning.