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Why exactly was Internet Explorer so bad? In hindsight, it looks like a huge missed opportunity for Microsoft.
by RyanShook 3y ago
Why exactly was Internet Explorer so bad? In hindsight, it looks like a huge missed opportunity for Microsoft.
- troupo 3y agoThey won. The world was running on desktop computers, and those desktop computers were running Windows, and Windows was running IE. So they rested on laurels.
- ubermonkey 3y agoThey were attempting to replace standards-based rendering with their idiosyncratic version. It wasn't that IE was bad; it was that it was deliberately that way b/c they saw the web as a threat to the desktop, and wanted to Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish it.
- cantSpellSober 3y agoIt had the majority share of users, lots of bugs, and didn't update itself (in the sense that modern evergreen browsers do). This turned into a chicken/egg problem where apps only worked in IE6. Mitigated somewhat by "evergreen" browsers that update themselves regularly.