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Internet Explorer
Full name: Windows Internet Explorer.
Initial year of release: 1995.
OS: Microsoft Windows.
Website: www.microsoft.com/ie.
Market share estimate: Around 80%. (This figure is combined, split more or less
evenly between Internet Explorer 7 and Internet Explorer 6, with a low and diminishing
number of users running version 5.x.)
Trend: Slow decline.
Engine: Trident.
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Compliance: Reasonable for version 7, although it dramatically fails Acid2. Poor for
version 6 and before, which require fixes for many advanced CSS properties and
values.
Comments: Despite being initially ignored, Microsoft??™s Mosaic-derived browser
became embroiled in the infamous browser wars of the late 1990s, regularly adding
new features and capabilities to eclipse rival Netscape Navigator. With the battle
won by 1999, Microsoft??™s browser seemingly lapsed into a semicomatose state.
Version 5??™s standards support was dire (unlike the Mac version, which was later
canceled), and while version 6 was an improvement, it still lagged behind its rivals,
including the then-new Firefox, resulting in its previously all-dominant market
share (which rose to a high of around 95%) being hit hard for nearly two years. In
late 2006, the final public release of version 7 appeared, with much-improved standards
support (although this aspect remains inferior to that of its rivals) and features
available in rival browsers (such as tabbed browsing).
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