Wow. That was clumsy even for you. In post #26 you tried to knock them for not having that feature. Where is your outrage over all the features from the Netscape Browser that are standard in IE?
(You don't have to answer that. We already know you're not trying to be consistent. Just pro-Microsoft.)
Incidentally, Internet Explorer was once the best browser available, hands down. And the way they achieved it was a terrific tech sector success story.
I also understand why they stopped investing heavily in IE. They had already achieved the dominance they intended, and weren't going to see any proportionate benefit by continuing at that pace. Makes pefect business sense, and any Microsoft stockholder should suppoprt the decision.
But the fact is, because they haven't paid much attention to the browser, they're now clearly no longer the best. Your pretense that you don't like any of those features IE doesn't offer sounds exactly like that of the Netscape curmudgeons, as IE 4 and 5 passed their preferred browser in quality.
Actually I was simply pointing out that it seemed contradictory that the poster above called IE "old crappy" whatever it was when in fact it appears IE features were being copied by other browsers. Therefore from my perspective the contradiction was was his, not mine.
Incidentally, Internet Explorer was once the best browser available, hands down. And the way they achieved it was a terrific tech sector success story. I also understand why they stopped investing heavily in IE. They had already achieved the dominance they intended, and weren't going to see any proportionate benefit by continuing at that pace.
That might have some validity based on current market share, but more importantly IE was forced into a holding tank when Janet Reno and her goons slapped MS with an anti-trust violation. MS couldn't really afford to take any chances to upgrade the product during the shakedown that was going on, lest they possibly be used against them in a court of law. Now that it's in the past, we're starting to finally see some new IE features such as in the new XP service pack, I've got a beta copy at work but haven't loaded it yet.