A eulogy for Internet Explorer

A eulogy for Internet Explorer 1995 — 2015 Niels Leenheer NLHTML5 — 23 July 2015 at Xebia, Hilversum

Internet Explorer was a good browser

Internet Explorer 6 was a good browser…

Internet Explorer 6 was a good browser… in 2001

And then Microsoft did nothing for five years…

In 2006 Internet Explorer 6 was not a good browser anymore…

In the days of Internet Explorer 4 and 5, it was truly way ahead of its time

opacity make elements translucent 1997 Internet Explorer 4 supports opacity filters 2001 opacity property appeared in CSS3 colors draft 2004 Firefox 0.9 supports the opacity property

@font-face use your own fonts in the browser 1997 Internet Explorer 4 supports CSS @font-face 2009 Firefox 3.5 supports CSS @font-face

VML vector graphics for the web 1999 Internet Explorer 5 supports VML 2001 SVG specification released 2004 first native SVG implementation

HTML+TIME animations and transitions 1999 Internet Explorer 5 supports HTML+TIME 2007 CSS3 based animations and transitions in WebKit 2009 CSS3 Animations and CSS3 Transitions published

HTML components extend HTML with your own behaviour 1999 Internet Explorer 5 supports HTML components 2012 first Web Components draft published

ContentEditable edit HTML in the browser 1999 2005 2007 2014 Internet Explorer 5 supports ContentEditable Safari 2 supports ContentEditable Firefox 3 supports ContentEditable HTML5 specification published

XMLHttpRequest load data from the server 1999 2000 2005 2006 Internet Explorer 5 supports Microsoft.XMLHTTP Mozilla reverse engineers it Interner Explorer 7 supports XMLHttpRequest W3C published a working draft

goodbye

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