@aral we had this debate in the late 90s when Netscape...

@aral we had this debate in the late 90s when Netscape 4 and IE4 implemented differing DOMs.

Ultimately, the w3c standard won out, but the browser wars, as intense as they were, were even less polarised than now. I do worry about this.

Like 3 Aug 2023 at 6:20 | Wall-to-wall | Open on aus.social

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@drunkenmadman Chrome is the new IE.

3 Aug 2023 at 6:22 | Open on mastodon.ar.al

@aral I quite *liked* the IE4 document.all[] model. It felt elegant to me, and it was much easier to do dHTML in IE.

However, the businesses paying me to build their shit wanted to reach *everyone*, and that was higher priority than sparkly UI. And they were right.

3 Aug 2023 at 6:23 | Open on aus.social