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IMHO, it seems like revisionist history to say Microsoft was flaunting W3C changes and implementing things in their own way.

Granted, early versions of IE made a hash of the standards that did exist, and didn't place an emphasis on compliance.

But the more accurate phrasing would be "W3C wasn't prepared for web adoption, and wasn't as agile as the early web needed."

People forget we wouldn't have gotten AJAX and descendents without IE's non-standard XMLHttpRequest support.




I'm old enough to remember web development in the early 2000's, and I don't think I am the one revising history ;)


That makes two of us. But if your takeaway from the 90s was 'W3C was in the right and timely, and MS decided to go another way just because,' then we have very different memories.




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