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2026-05-15 10:09 UTC
@sdarlington@mas.to @nicklockwood@mastodon.social
Not in the context of this article. IE had a ton of quirks for compatibility with websites expecting older versions of IE as well as Netscape. That was one of the reasons it was impossible for competing browsers to just treat IE as the defacto standard.
At least Chrome forces web sites to stick as closely to the standards as Chrome does, where with IE you often had completely different code for IE and for browsers that tried to follow the standard.
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@sdarlington@mas.to 2026-05-15 10:56
@leeloo@c.im @nicklockwood@mastodon.social Chrome and IE have different failures. IE stagnated. What people forget is that IE started off as a really good browser! Unfortunately, MS won and they just stopped investing in it. Google obviously has different incentives, but the issue is that it doesn't matter whether Chrome implements standards correctly or not. Firefox could have a better implementation, but it doesn't matter if everyone uses Chromium.