Subj : Microsoft
To   : MRO
From : Nightfox
Date : Thu Oct 13 2022 09:01 am

 Re: Microsoft
 By: MRO to Nightfox on Thu Oct 13 2022 12:30 am

>> sneaky tactics to try to corner the market.  Microsoft also made IE
>> behave a bit differently (in a non-standard way) than other web
>> browsers, so by the time IE gained a lot of marketshare, some web
>> sites pretty much worked only with IE.

MR> standards back then weren't really strictly followed.

Microsoft certainly didn't strictly follow standards, but they used that to their advantage to get people to use IE.

I've often heard IE was the bane of web developers because they had to do things differently for their web site to work properly in IE.

Nightfox

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