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I'm pretty sure I never thought of IE as a "great browser" and I've been doing web development for 15 years. It is probably closer than ever before to being a s
by hvs 13y ago
I'm pretty sure I never thought of IE as a "great browser" and I've been doing web development for 15 years. It is probably closer than ever before to being a standards-compliant browser that doesn't require a thousand "fixes" in order to work correctly. Unfortunately, we still have to deal with IE7, IE8, and, yes, even IE9 in the wild. IE7 is becoming much less prevalent, but it is still often required for the clients I deal with.
- njr123 13y agoIE5 and 6 were great browsers, and they were much better than their Netscape equivalents at the time. The problems came when they decided to stop any more development once they had put Netscape out of business.
- recursive 13y agoIMO when IE4 came out, it was the best browser.
- 67726e 13y agoAdmittedly, I'm a little young to remember the earlier IE versions, especially in the context of being a developer, but my older coworkers like to remind me how nice it was for its time. I guess the moral of the story is today's state of the art is tomorrow's bane of my existence.
- hvs 13y agoYou may be young, but in your final sentence you speak great wisdom.