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> departure from standards There were no new HTML standards between 4.0.1 in 2000, and 5.0 in 2014. > enforcing its own vision of the web thanks to its enormo
by Const-me 3y ago
> departure from standards
There were no new HTML standards between 4.0.1 in 2000, and 5.0 in 2014.
> enforcing its own vision of the web thanks to its enormous market share
Modern web is only possible because Microsoft implemented non-standard XMLHttpRequest in IE5. However, they didn’t do that to enforce a vision. The goal was practical — save network bandwidth for their Outlook Web Access product.
- Macha 3y agoES5, 2009, CSS 2.1, 2011. HTML is not the only standard for a web browser Also in that period, Microsoft was failing to comply with the standards for CSS 2, standardised in 1998, ES3, standardised in 1999, and PNG, standardised in 1996.