Chrome as New IE
Discussions revolve around the historical dominance and stagnation of Internet Explorer (especially IE6) that hindered web progress, with many drawing parallels to Chrome's current market supremacy and potential similar issues.
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Ah. Maybe it was because IE sucked for a long time, compared to Firefox?
Difference: IE was ugly and IE experience was ugly.
We fought against IE supremacy for over a decade, now we have to fight against Chrome, which does even worse and evil than IE
Having lived through the "IE days", we're now in the "Chrome days" and the outcome will be no better.
maybe it's their IE6 moment.
Seems like you forgot what it was like when Internet Explorer was the dominating browser.
IE started this. Now IE is gone and we will remain stuck with it forever.
That's self-defeatist. You mentioned IE downthread; IE is not the dominant browser anymore, and the reason for that is not just that MS stagnated, but that it was challenged vigorously by competitors that exploited new opportunities better. This is one such opportunity.
Feels like they're flogging a dead horse to me a little. IE is constantly playing catchup to the other browsers, and MS gave us the web development darkages thanks to version 6/7/8. I kind of wish they would just kill it off and offer the completion up to the users.
People used to say that about IE6, before Firefox and Chrome came along.