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rimantas on Oct 7, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Robert Bork on antitrust: Google is no Microsoft

  > Consumers did not gravitate to IE because it was
  > "legitimately better" than Netscape. It never was.

You don't know what are you talking about. IE4 was already better than NN4 with its "layers" and half-assed JS-based CSS implementation. IE6 was far far ahead of Netscape. It was the best browser at the time. The problem is that IE stagnated from that point.

winter_blue on Oct 7, 2012 [–]

> The problem is that IE stagnated from that point.

Recently, they've caught up pretty well.

te_chris on Oct 7, 2012 | [–]

That they had to catch up is the real problem. They willfully stagnated for years.

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