IE6 sucks now. But when it came out it was one of the advanced browsers out there. And it was the first browser to support shadows and opacity. - Shadows with:

IE6 sucks now. But when it came out it was one of the advanced browsers out there. And it was the first browser to support shadows and opacity. - Shadows with: filter: Shadow(Color=#999999, Direction=135, Strength=5); - Opacity: filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader (src='image_name.png', sizingMethod='scale'); It even has support for javascript in css: left: expression(15+((e=document.documentElement.scrollLeft)?e:document.body.scrollLeft)+'px'); And I remember you could even give your scrollbars colors. How is this different from webkit shipping browser with cool new features now? Similar to microsoft right? They also wanted to show how cool their browser was back then. If Microsoft never shipped IE6 with these extensions we would have a lot less issues a few years ago.