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You should look at the history of Netscape and Microsoft. And how Microsoft would push proprietary features e.g. ActiveX which took nearly a decade to become a
by threeseed 5y ago
You should look at the history of Netscape and Microsoft.
And how Microsoft would push proprietary features e.g. ActiveX which took nearly a decade to become a HTML standard and locked websites specifically to IE.
- smoldesu 5y agoI'm familiar. I also remember how endless litigation and antitrust lawsuits forced them out of the practice, and sent a warning and a precedent to the rest of the industry.
- threeseed 5y agoI don't think you are familiar. Because the litigation and antitrust lawsuits were to do with the bundling of IE and the coercion Microsoft applied against OEMs. There was nothing against Microsoft for adding proprietary features.
- smoldesu 5y agoBecause proprietary features are fine? Nothing happened. ActiveX died. You're better off complaining about the "proprietary" APIs in iOS and how they're stifling cross-platform innovation because Apple refuses to publish them everywhere else. Whining about being forced to use certain platforms for certain features is pretty damn ironic when you're standing in iOS' corner. I say, let it happen. If Apple had a better browser, this wouldn't be a problem. C'est va.
- ece 5y agoActiveX is a far cry from Chromium-based browsers being available on every other platform which has nearly perfect Chrome compatibility save for some DRM bits if I remember correctly.