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Given that Microsoft deviated from the standards and they had the most used browser, so many sites demanded that you use Internet Explorer to access their content. It worked and Microsoft fixed their site.īut there were a lot more websites with issues. We had a bit of fun with this one and made a special Bork edition of Opera that changed all the text on the MSN site to something resembling the way the Swedish Cook spoke in the Muppet show. Microsoft sent Opera users a broken CSS file, which meant that text overlapped.The reality was that we supported XHTML, but they did not. We wrote a press release rebutting them, in XHTML. Microsoft barred Opera users from accessing their MSN service, claiming we did not support XHTML.After we discovered the issue, Microsoft fixed it. Websites, such as the BBC, broke, and we got the blame. It took us a really long time to figure that one out.
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Microsoft made their own server software and in an update (to version 4), they included a file that made sure we would not be sent cookies.We had to deal with compatibility issues across the board. Projects we were involved with, such as with Compaq and Intel, got canceled due to threats from Microsoft. Getting distribution with any Windows-based computer was impossible. Microsoft close to taking over the WebĪt the time, I was leading the Opera browser which I had co-founded with Geir Ivarsøy.Īs a competitor of Microsoft, we noticed a lot of the things they did to kill off competition. In reality, many web developers made sites optimized for IE, instead of for web standards, making it really hard for competing browsers. They also added various proprietary tags in their HTML/CSS/JS code, which made life difficult for web developers.
During this time they introduced technology such as ActiveX and Silverlight, making it impossible to use competing browsers when accessing services that used those technologies. They then started to expand on the web standards, with total disregard for the standards community.
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After “cutting off the air supply” from Netscape, by bundling IE with Windows and stopping any ability to get browsers bundled on Windows computers, they quickly took the lead in the browser market. The principle there was to embrace web standards and get the standards community on board.
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After getting the license from Spyglass, they started on their road of the infamous Embrace, extend, extinguish tactic. Having seen the growth of Netscape, Microsoft understood that they needed to act and they did. Their original goal was to build their own Internet, but like other proprietary attempts at building Internet, such as AOL and Compuserve, they failed. The first Internet Explorer was based off the original Mosaic code, licensed from Spyglass. Internet Explorer: Embrace, extend, extinguish In fact, I would say that the Web is better off without Internet Explorer, something even Microsoft has understood. The loss of the Presto browser engine was a much bigger loss. It is quite simple really.īut that being said, the loss of Internet Explorer is not really a loss. Competition is good and fewer browser engines means less innovation in browser engines. It is unfortunate that we now have one less browser engine on the Internet. The browser lives on as Edge which first appeared with an engine also called Edge, but finally, the original Internet Explorer has been put to rest. On the 17th of August, Microsoft decided to kill off its Internet Explorer browser.
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