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I mean MS basically invented leveraging market share to drive web standards. IE was famous for flaunting W3C and implementing things their own way, much to the
by skohan 5y ago
I mean MS basically invented leveraging market share to drive web standards. IE was famous for flaunting W3C and implementing things their own way, much to the chagrin of web developers even to this day. It's the kind of behavior which got their hand slapped for anti-trust in the 90's.
It's hard to say it's "copying google", it's more of a return to form now that the regulatory environment seems to have relaxed on anti-trust.
- ethbr0 5y agoIMHO, it seems like revisionist history to say Microsoft was flaunting W3C changes and implementing things in their own way. Granted, early versions of IE made a hash of the standards that did exist, and didn't place an emphasis on compliance. But the more accurate phrasing would be "W3C wasn't prepared for web adoption, and wasn't as agile as the early web needed." People forget we wouldn't have gotten AJAX and descendents without IE's non-standard XMLHttpRequest support.
- skohan 5y agoI'm old enough to remember web development in the early 2000's, and I don't think I am the one revising history ;)
- ethbr0 5y agoThat makes two of us. But if your takeaway from the 90s was 'W3C was in the right and timely, and MS decided to go another way just because,' then we have very different memories.