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At time it was a defense against Microsoft embrace-extend-extinguishing the web through their dominance with IE. Remember ActiveX, VBscript in the browser, etc?
by satyrnein 4y ago
At time it was a defense against Microsoft embrace-extend-extinguishing the web through their dominance with IE. Remember ActiveX, VBscript in the browser, etc?
- cmrdporcupine 4y agoThe threat of that had already been greatly reduced by the time Chrome came out. Firefox was quite dominant, and IE had become much more standards compliant.
- satyrnein 4y agoI just checked and seems like IE was down to around 60% and Firefox up to a third when Chrome launched (not sure how long before that the project was greenlight). So it probably still played a role.
- cmrdporcupine 4y agoyeah but the demon of IE6 was pretty much done