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Indeed, 'terrible', 'evil' but not 'lazy'. Nothing could cause such pain without a lot of hard work.
by Offler 14y ago
Indeed, 'terrible', 'evil' but not 'lazy'.
Nothing could cause such pain without a lot of hard work.
- dmethvin 14y agoI invite you to submit your work from 14 years ago and have it judged by 2013 standards.
- Scramblejams 14y agoIIRC IE6 was considered a pretty nasty piece of work by discriminating minds at the time (e.g. more of embrace, extend, extinguish[1]), so no need to time travel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish
- simanyay 14y agoBack in the days, IE6 was the best browser out there.
- Scramblejams 14y agoWhether it was a good browser or not doesn't change the fact that it was also a crafty attempt at manipulating web standards in such a way as to promote vendor lock-in for the entire web, which supports Offler's post.
- ams6110 14y agoRemember Microsoft basically invented AJAX and XHR back in IE5/6. You could also run XSLT in the browser to easily transform the XML data to HTML presentation. No other browser had these capabilities for years.