> Consumers did not gravitate to IE because it was > "legitimately better" than Netscape. It never was. You don't know what are you talking about. IE4 was a

> Consumers did not gravitate to IE because it was > "legitimately better" than Netscape. It never was. You don't know what are you talking about. IE4 was already better than NN4 with its "layers" and half-assed JS-based CSS implementation. IE6 was far far ahead of Netscape. It was the best browser at the time. The problem is that IE stagnated from that point.