A presentation at NLHTML5 in in Hilversum, Netherlands by Niels Leenheer
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
@html5test
Windows 10 has been released. For the first time since Windows 95, Internet Explorer will no longer be the default browser in Windows. That place has been taken by Microsoft Edge. So now would be a good time to say goodbye. A eulogy, if you will.
