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by dpark 5042 days ago
> Is that innovation? Some would say yes. I think that most of these only became innovative once they began to be available to larger audiences, which coincides with the rise of Firefox and later on Chrome.

This seems like a definition designed specifically to avoid giving IE any credit for innovation. How can a feature be innovative after it's copied but not when it's created?

If something is so valuable that competitors are compelled to copy it, that seems almost the very definition of innovation.