> Internet Explorer 4.0 was perfection incarnate in a browser. It had Active Desktop. It had Channels. It had motherfucking Channels, the coolest technology tha

> Internet Explorer 4.0 was perfection incarnate in a browser. It had Active Desktop. It had Channels. It had motherfucking Channels, the coolest technology that never reached market adoption ever not even a little bit. Are you sure? There's some pretty stiff competition even in IE4: VRML was incredible, as were Tclets. Seriously web technology has mostly gone backwards since then. CSS has needed multiple revisions to reach the point where on a good day it can barely match what you could do in HTML3. <video> is a worse <embed>. Chrome remembers and syncs my passwords if I type them into the input of a HTML form, but not if I use the actual native HTTP authentication, and forget trying to use proper public key certificates like worked perfectly in 1996...