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by asadotzler 414 days ago
IE 6 gave us web apps with XMLHttpReques. IE 6 was amazing and developers loved it. It kicked the pants off of Netscape and earlier IEs.
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bruce511 412 days ago
Yes, it added a lot of new things snd gained 100% market share. Then did absolutely nothing for years and years.

The web basically stagnated because once you have 100% there's no incentive to even fix bugs.

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