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I think that you are confusing backwards/forwards compatibility with the point the OP seemed to be making: Microsoft never bothered to follow the web standards.

• magic_haze 14y ago
  Agreed, but... the standards themselves have changed since 1999.
  • LekkoscPiwa 14y ago
    Yeah, it seems Microsoft always has had good excuses. I wonder if other browsers from that period would have as poor results as IE5 does. I seriously doubt it.
    • yuhong 13y ago
      Well the main competitor was Netscape 4, which was even worse.
      • LekkoscPiwa 13y ago
        What exactly was worse in Netscape? Because I just loved using it.
        • yuhong 13y ago
          It's extremely bad and buggy CSS support, which was even worse than even IE4, let along IE5.