![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What really helped though was that at this point there was an actual standards body appearing, creating CSS as a web standard. By the next major incarnation, Netscape/IE 4, Explorer was not only playing Netscape's game, it was playing it just as well if not better then the master. IE 3 matched a great deal of Netscapes extended standard, then proceeded to do some extending of their own. Unlike smaller companies that Netscape could push around, IE was being made by a company with enough money to play (and eventually beat) Netscape at it's own game. However a new browser was appearing at this time, the first viable version of Internet Explorer, IE 3. Now by Netscape 3 the rest of the original browser market had been crushed by anti-competitive practices. This forced the competition to modify their user agent just to get a page (even Internet Explorer had to identify itself as "Mozilla"), at which point they still had to try and emulate Netscapes propritary extensions. Their monopoly got so bad webservers where being coded to look for the "Mozilla" string at the beginning of the agent field, rejecting people who didn't use the one browser because pages designed for it wouldn't render correctly on standard browsers. With their vision of turning the web into a form of TV (where the webpage controlled your computer with crap like popups, window resizing and statusbar changing) they managed to create a browser that had lots of interesting (or stupid, depending on your view) things for web developers to do, but was completely incompatible with every other browser. Rather then follow the standards of the day, Netscape proceeded to liberally "enhance" their browser with quirks only they supported (most infamous being the blink tag). ![]() Long before Microsoft entered the browser arena to make Windows a viable internet machine out of the box, a company called Netscape was destroying competition in the browser world with it's "embrace and extend" philosophy. IE was only ahead because of the way it locked people into writing for the funny way it displays pagesįunny, that sounds like another browser I know. ![]()
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