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Originally posted by heatus
10 years? firefox did not take that long to make. What about the original mozilla.. which is what netscape is based off. Netscape was the top browser for years.

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IE hasn't changed much since the 90s, yet Mozilla only recently started to seriously threaten it (or something). It took them many years to really be able to challenge IE. IMO, they're just too slow since they are free open source and have no deadlines/money.

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From my experience Firefox renders pages better than IE. The only reason some pages don't load properly in Firefox is because they don't comply with W3C standards. I expect to write some CSS and for it to be displayed the way it is meant to be displayed, IE just does its own thing.

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You admit that Firefox gets glitches sometimes (unlike IE), yet you say it renders better? How does it render better? IE may render differently, but it doesn't mess pages up. Perhaps you're referring to W3C compliance?

I agree that ideally, complying with the W3C "standards" would be the best solution for everyone. But the simple fact is, the Web's *practical* standard nowadays is IE. And since there's no global Web authority to decide or enforce anything, IE is actually more of a "standard" than W3C.

I don't like or support IE, but I do acknowledge that it dominates the Web. The browser wars are long gone, IE won. The Web is so IE-oriented now, that I can hardly imagine W3C prevailing. IE is more Web-compatible than any W3C-compliant browser.