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IE was different things to different people.

To developers, IE was the browser for which you had to spend hours debugging issues. Sounds like Safari to me. Considering you have to buy a whole device to use Safari, I’d argue it’s worse than IE was.

(Sent from my Safari browser)

discuss

joshstrange|2 years ago

> Considering you have to buy a whole device to use Safari, I’d argue it’s worse than IE was.

Until Edge (which is just Chrome essentially) the only way to run IE was on a windows computer. Not sure how that’s different.

bunga-bunga|2 years ago

The difference is that Microsoft did not sell computers and did not sue anyone trying to run their OS on non-Microsoft hardware.

Safari can only be run on Apple machines manufactured by Apple.

kemayo|2 years ago

You can run linux builds of WebKit, which should be enough to debug Safari rendering issues: https://webkit.org/downloads/

robertoandred|2 years ago

You had to buy a whole Windows computer to use IE.