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Ignoring the evidence you read little more than the title, the doublethink required to produce this comment staggers belief. The "darkest days of IE6's reign" w
by hosay123 14y ago
Ignoring the evidence you read little more than the title, the doublethink required to produce this comment staggers belief. The "darkest days of IE6's reign" was a direct result of Internet Explorer from about IE4 onwards beating the pants out of Netscape on technical excellence (ironically in this context, including CSS support), a situation that Chrome in particular is now well on its way to repeating.
As for whether Chrome or Safari are 'better' in some way than Microsoft of yesteryear, both companies have an attitude toward backwards compatibility that could at best be described as 'disposable', particularly in the case of Google. In the meantime, Chrome is pushing a new 'open source' version of ActiveX on the world (NaCl), and extended the web specs so much that they've all but plain given up on cooperation with the W3C in favour of their own kangaroo court (WHATWG). I could go on..
- cageface 14y agoSo IE's short-lived superiority negates the many many subsequent years that followed (the dark days) in which it was a stinking dead weight around the neck of every web developer on the planet? The only double-think and belief staggering in play here is the idea that a rapidly evolving, open-source and highly standard compliant modern browser (Chrome) is anything like IE at any point in its history except perhaps the present day.