You may be cranky, but you're obviously not that old. In ye olden times IE was actually the decent browser (that you didn't have to pay for). It's just that the

You may be cranky, but you're obviously not that old. In ye olden times IE was actually the decent browser (that you didn't have to pay for). It's just that they won the browser wars and let things stagnate. Once they stopped leading they became followers (when they moved at all). This is not recent history. It is lore. But lore that the elder devs should know. As an ex-'softie I can tell you that the engineers from IE were generally not happy with this situation. Or with all of the acrobatics to support non-standard crap. But I have yet to meet anyone who really understands how the winds of decision-making at Microsoft get their first breaths. Basically, it was situation == nobody happy, even most folks at the borg. I apologize if my response isn't full of data. I don't understand how a troll post hit the top of the discussion page and thought it deserved a response, even a fluffy one full of hearsay.