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This is a bit inaccurate, oddly. At least, for my memory, IE6 was genuinely better than Netscape at the time. They did make some odd choices, such as border-b
by taeric 3y ago
This is a bit inaccurate, oddly. At least, for my memory, IE6 was genuinely better than Netscape at the time. They did make some odd choices, such as border-box, but by and large Netscape was stagnating hard. That said, I remember the fieldset and legend styling was much better in IE than it was in Firefox. And, amusingly, I have grown to prefer border-box for sizing.
Now, as time went on, IE became very stagnate and upset folks by not adding more and more. So maybe it depends what time we are talking about here?
- icedchai 3y agoYes, there was a dark period (early 2000's) where IE 6 was basically the only usable browser. Netscape was far behind, and also incredibly unstable (crashing hourly.) Firefox wasn't out yet. Chrome was years and years away.
- doctor_eval 3y agoFrom memory, Netscape decided to pivot to open source via Mozilla/Firefox but IIRC, the development process took much much longer than expected. I remember reading Mozillazine back in the day, breathlessly anticipating the shiny new version. Some years later I stopped waiting, and gave up.
- toyg 3y agoThey did a Big Rewrite which was somewhat bogged down by feature creep. They were rewriting not just a browser, but also an Outlook competitor and a WYSIWYG webpage editor - and while doing that, they decided it would be cool to create a universal GUI runtime for all of them, powered by the browser engine itself! In a way, it was an amazing effort (without which we wouldn't have Firefox and Thunderbird), but it was definitely more than most people expected of them.