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		katbyte on Jan 5, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Now Google is blocking Windows Phones from accessi... Was IE6 really all that much of an improvement over the mozilla browser (Not Netscape, precursor to phoenix -> firebird -> firefox ) at the time? I can't remember a time were I found IE to be actually better, or even comparable until recently.

sbuk on Jan 5, 2013 [–]

Yes, it was. It's features basically heralded Asynchronous Javascript And XML, quite a biggie in terms of web-as-a-platform.

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