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by Klonoar 26 days ago
IE was bad because Microsoft let it stagnate, not because they were creating new things.

Stop getting history twisted.
1 comments
danaris 26 days ago
It was both.

If you wanted to do dynamic stuff in IE, you had to use ActiveX. Which was IE-only. So many sites only used ActiveX, because IE was the 900lb gorilla, so why support anything else?

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