Some commenters seem to forget what the MSIE monopoly was all about. About not keeping up with emerging web standards? That's a misconception. That was a result of Firefox interrupting the market.
MS deliberately added non-standard crap to get everyone off the rails when not using IE. That's why websites often showed "Best viewed in 1024x768 and 16M colors using Internet Explorer".
And that is a remark I see more often every day. And it's Chrome being recommended.
Remember why MS switched from EdgeHTML to Blink? Because Google would hamstring EdgeHTML at every corner on their services. Not completely break it, but make Gmail or Youtube a tad slower than in Chrome.
Google also did this to Windows Phone, actively sabotaging the platform by refusing to allow Google Maps to load in WP's browser and repeatedly disabling Microsoft's YouTube app. It was Google at its worst for me, together with their shenanigans around subtly breaking FF on their web products throughout the years.
> Remember why MS switched from EdgeHTML to Blink? Because Google would hamstring EdgeHTML at every corner on their services. Not completely break it, but make Gmail or Youtube a tad slower than in Chrome.
I'm not exactly condoning, nor condemning, that behavior, but there's a little part of me that wants to say to Microsoft: "not so funny now, is it?"
I know Microsoft was notorious for not playing nice with other browsers but I thought that mostly had to do with them deciding to go their own way with non-standard features or simply not implementing standards they don't like
Is there documented evidence that Microsoft stooped this low as well? Did they purposely make their sites not work as well on other browsers?
MS deliberately added non-standard crap to get everyone off the rails when not using IE. That's why websites often showed "Best viewed in 1024x768 and 16M colors using Internet Explorer".
And that is a remark I see more often every day. And it's Chrome being recommended.
Remember why MS switched from EdgeHTML to Blink? Because Google would hamstring EdgeHTML at every corner on their services. Not completely break it, but make Gmail or Youtube a tad slower than in Chrome.
"Don't be evil" my ass.