[wyqydsyq]

> Actually, my memory is essentially that the IE team was doing decent work.

Yes for a while there they were doing a great job of implementing Microsoft's Embrace, Extend, Extinguish philosophy by intentionally avoiding web standards conformance and instead focusing on proprietary features (ActiveX plugins etc) in attempt to make IE "better" than the competition

[taeric]

This is actually compatible with what I was saying. The ie team was building a decent product. If it was being sold, it would have been a healthy competitor in the field. Instead, the company pushed it for free to basically burn the market.