Re: Need advice on reliable way to identifyIE asthe browser

Netscape itself had much to do with their loss of market share. Do you remember the disaster that every release of version 4 was? The initial releases (which you had to pay for) were incredibly unstable and every time something was fixed, something else broke. In the mean time, IE 4 was very stable and had good (for its day) CSS support. AOL buying Netscape pretty much finished killing Navigator off since a lot of the developers left at that time and by the time Navigator 6 came out, nobody cared.

Matt

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From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Nathan Andelin
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 11:08 AM
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Subject: Re: [WEB400] Need advice on reliable way to identifyIE asthe browser

From: Maurice O'Prey
Some of we poor souls (about 80% of us) choose to use IE.

I'm not sure that "choice" is the appropriate noun. I still recall ISP's offering Netscape and IE options when people signed up for their service, and I think Netscape had something like 80% of the market share, back then. Then Microsoft embedded IE in Windows... And it's not like you can even uninstall it, or separate it out from Windows updates. And since Microsoft essentially rebuffed the government's attempt to intervene on behalf of consumer choice, I think a little bit of grass-roots missionary work is in order.

Nathan.



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