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Yeah, MSIE was the best browser through version 4. The real reason Netscape lost the browser wars was that it became a huge bloated mess. Now it probably coul

Yeah, MSIE was the best browser through version 4. The real reason Netscape lost the browser wars was that it became a huge bloated mess. Now it probably couldn't have beat IE regardless of how good it was because of Microsoft's monopolistic practices, but IE was the best browser for a few years in the mid-90s. Of course, they then proceeded to let it stagnate for the better part of a decade...

nivla 12y ago
>they then proceeded to let it stagnate for the better part of a decade... That is one of the side effects of being on top without the worry of competition AKA being a monopoly. Despite Chrome being my favorite browser, this is one the things that worries me the most when everyone yells "Port all browsers to Webkit!!!", we will inadvertently repeat history. Southpark best visually described it in one of their episodes [1]. [1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something_Wall-Mart_This_Way_Comes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something_Wall-Mart_This_Way_Co...
- dblohm7 12y ago
  +1. I try to figure out where the "Port all browsers to WebKit!" crowd is coming from, but the only reasonable speculative theory that I can think of is that they weren't there for the first go-round.