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Re: MSIE5 better but still buggy (was: Re: Why MSIE sucks for the HTML writer)
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Mon, 20 Mar 2000 22:49:57 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Microsoft employee Asher Kobin writes:
> Let's see:
> IE3 was released in 1995

LOL!

Alpha 1 of MSIE 3.0 didn't even come out until March 1996.[1]

MSIE 3.0 was released August 1996.

My MSIE 3.02 executable is dated June 4, 1997.


> IE4 was released in 1997

Tail end of 1997, yes.


> IE5 was released in 1998 or 1999 (can't recall right now)

March 1999.


> So your beef is with a product that is 5 years old.  Get real!

No, my beef still is having to be aware of and work around bugs in a product
released 2.8 years ago.  Fortunately, the number of users using that product
is getting lower and lower every day.  Eventually, hopefully, someday the
workarounds can be dropped.

--Todd

[1] http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/history/browsers6.htm



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