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IE development was pretty rapid up to IE6: please check their release dates. Microsoft out-developed Netscape. How do you think it got from IE1.0 in August 199
by scholia 14y ago
IE development was pretty rapid up to IE6: please check their release dates. Microsoft out-developed Netscape.
How do you think it got from IE1.0 in August 1995 to IE6 in October 2001? (That included the IE5.5 release as well.)
- just2n 14y agoI did check their release dates. I don't consider multi-month releases of minor versions "rapid", and major versions were shipped yearly. That rate of development with the resources Microsoft had to get the best developers available is really unacceptable.
- yuhong 14y agoNetscape used a similar release cycle too, and so did Firefox before version 4.
- scholia 14y agoYou're wrong, but I guess you're too young to remember and can't be bothered to learn anything. The IE team produced 7 versions in six years and there were some very substantial advances, including a new layout engine (Trident). They also did Mac and Unix versions, a mobile version, and a tabbed version for MSN (before iE had tabs). IE certainly developed a lot faster than anything else on the market in the 1990s, bearing in mind that Netscape took three years to get from 4.7 to 4.8. Safari entered the market late (2003) and still took the best part of seven years to make it to version 4. Nobody shipped major versions "yearly".