This might amuse (I hope)

[David Gerard]

On 22 January 2011 13:52, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hmmm. I'd have to say that depended on perspective, then. I never
> thought of that as a big deal, myself. ActiveX versus safe sandboxed
> plugins, yes, that was /huge/, but DOM? *Really?*


Microsoft's whacky-ass DOM was *utterly unlike* the standards-based
one everyone else tried to put together. Microsoft participated in the
standard then ignored it, as was their wont.

None of this was solved until Firefox got popular, i.e. actual competition.


- d.