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0 pointsMivLives7y ago0 comments

Realistically, would we have cared if IE was everywhere if it wasn't garbage in supporting web standards?

I'm not arguing for a lack of competition. It's just that someone needs to be on top of the heap. Might as well be a company that's invested in having their pages load fast rather than an OS maker with no incentive to improve their browser.

I wish Google would go back to funding Mozilla like they used to. At one point they were 90% of Mozilla's revenue.

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kowdermeister7y ago

> Realistically, would we have cared if IE was everywhere if it wasn't garbage in supporting web standards?

No, I would have been perfectly happy if IE was a developer friendly, standards compliant browser, but they created a huge opportunity by ignoring this. I remember when I was super excited for a little floating JavaScript debug tool that you had to include in HTML and you could inspect variables without alerting them. I was amazed by it :)

> I wish Google would go back to funding Mozilla like they used to.

I think that's still the case:

https://www.cnet.com/news/google-firefox-search-deal-gives-m...

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