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		oorza on March 16, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NPM Is Joining GitHub You're right, IE6 was amazing at the time. It made a ton of things possible that previously hadn't been, and the standards bodies were lagging behind it. Had MS actually kept updating IE6 and kept it ahead of the standards, the standards would never have mattered, and we'd never have developed this sick taste for IE. No one hated that they had a monopoly, we hated that they had a stagnant monopoly.

aduitsis on March 16, 2020 | [–]

Those of us that were using non-MS OSes like Linux or FreeBSD or Solaris back then hated it that sites were made to work correctly only on IE.

robertlagrant on March 17, 2020 | [–]

Your comment just triggered the box model. Which is what I call my flashbacks about when hasLayout was true or not.

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