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points by randallsquared 3 days ago | 0 comments

> By this standard, every desktop should still ship with a copy of Internet Explorer 6

But the original statement being objected to was "never got off the ground", and while you can say many things about IE6, that isn't one.

[–] xp84 2 days ago

Ok you know what? Very fair objection. Just because I never encountered it personally doesn't mean anything. My first web development was not until about 2007, and simply was not ever in any company that used it.

[–] pmarreck 2 days ago

hah, you skipped right over a world of pain in the early 2000's! Every site had to essentially be built twice: once for everything but IE, and then once again for IE, it sucked ass