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Seems we collectively forgot about IE era.
by Keyframe 2y ago
Seems we collectively forgot about IE era.
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- esafak 2y agoNightmares are best forgotten.
- metaltyphoon 2y agoYou still live on them but now it is called Safari
- dinobones 2y agoThe IE era, a shoddy browser by a sleepy dormant pseudo-monopoly, is what allowed for Chrome to be so good. Lots of low hanging fruit in optimizing browser rendering and JavaScript. Google engineers plucked these fruit. Pichai took all the credit. In an alternate universe, some IE PM focused on making a great, fast browser, Chrome would’ve been killed by Google after not taking sufficient market share to deem worthwhile, and Pichai would be working at Oracle as an L5 TPM.
- hnlmorg 2y agoIt was Firefox, and to a lesser extent Safari, that initially calved into IE. While Chrome did indeed strike the fatal blow, it came a little later into fight. You also missed the GPs point, the reason Microsoft could be “sleepy dormant” on the web was because they had already won the browser wars and because the dominant platform for a decade. And that wasn’t by accident, it was very much a strategic move to conquer the browser market.
- Keyframe 2y agoYou're spot pn on both accounts. Firefox was the one that chipped at IE initially.. remember Firefox 3 campaign and how everyone put banners for/of it on their sites? good times