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To be accurate, IE was not hated by "end-users". It was hated by web developers (understandably) reluctant to support non-standard apis and by informed people.

• rvnx 3y ago
  If the API was used by 90%+ of the internet, then it was the standard.
• JohnFen 3y ago
  It was also hated by many end users.