Actually, for a while, IE was the best browser available. It was lighter weight, faster than Netscape, and had better web standards support. Mozilla, with its n

Actually, for a while, IE was the best browser available. It was lighter weight, faster than Netscape, and had better web standards support. Mozilla, with its new Gecko engine, took a long time to mature, and was still fairly slow and bloated until Firefox (née Phoenix) came around. Remember, IE was where several features that now form the basis of the modern web came from. Heard of something called XMLHttpRequest? That came from IE.