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The revisionist history stood out to me as well. We're supposed to believe that MS stopped developing IE6 because "the DOJ and web standards commies intervened", and it was just coincidentally at the same time they killed of Netscape in market share?

We're supposed to believe that the W3C (founded in 1994), and the Web Standards Project (founded in 1998), had to work for years and just coincidentally managed to browbeat MS into stopping development on IE at the same time MS beat Netscape? That they were even capable of "bullying" a company like MS into stopping development on one of their products?

My own exposure to web standards was Zeldman's first "Designing With Web Standards" book, published in 2003. My experience has been that the standardistas have spent most of their time trying to push MS to further develop IE to support standards (which it still lags at), not trying to hinder innovation.