Comment Re:Microsoft versus Google (Score 5, Informative) 261
What kind of crack are you smoking? IE gained popularity because of two things:
1) They pre-installed the browser with the OS.
2) They fucked around with browser implementation standards.
IE wasn't better. Microsoft included their own tags and "VB script" that would make it's browser do things that Netscape couldn't.
When web site developers foolishly started using these proprietary tags, web site viewers realized that half the sites they were going to didn't work "properly" in Netscape, and Netscape lost marketshare.
Netscape didn't get the nickname "Nutscrape" from users who know what they were talking about, it got the name from people who preferred the glitz and galmour of all the cool, new, RFC breaking features that IE provided.
1) They pre-installed the browser with the OS.
2) They fucked around with browser implementation standards.
IE wasn't better. Microsoft included their own tags and "VB script" that would make it's browser do things that Netscape couldn't.
When web site developers foolishly started using these proprietary tags, web site viewers realized that half the sites they were going to didn't work "properly" in Netscape, and Netscape lost marketshare.
Netscape didn't get the nickname "Nutscrape" from users who know what they were talking about, it got the name from people who preferred the glitz and galmour of all the cool, new, RFC breaking features that IE provided.
