[jflowers45]

I'm slightly confused by the combination of "introduced in Internet Explorer 5.5" and "offers a powerful new way" being written in an article posted on August 28, 2017

[enb]

FTA: cough OK, obviously it’s 2017 and Internet Explorer 5.5 isn’t relevant anymore. But if you’re a Web developer, this should have given you some pause for thought. The modern Web Components pillars: Templates, Custom Elements, Shadow DOM, and Imports, were all features originally in IE5, released in 1999.

[abritinthebay]

It was a truly great release.

[detritus]

haha, it really was too, no hint of sarcasm! Young'uns these days probably can't believe what a saviour Microsoft from the clusterfudge that Navigator represented back then.

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Typed on Firefox :)

[abritinthebay]

Oh no, I agree. IE got its bad reputation due to neglect, not because it originally wasn’t good.

It just wasn’t good enough to last 10 years without updates

[colordrops]

Is that really true? IE 5.5 had shadow Dom?

[TazeTSchnitzel]

Yes, it's described by the article.

[flomo]

To a great degree, "modern web standards" are an exercise in reinventing proprietary Microsoft stuff from the 1990s.

(Or replacing some thing that Java or Flash had done for years.)