What the future of browsers looked like when IE6 was released

2001 (in case you missed the date): <i>"The browser war is over, and Microsoft has won. Now comes the occupation."</i><p>2004-2011: Viva la resistance!

How different a place the web would be today if Microsoft had truly embraced innovation back then, instead of focusing solely on peripheral income streams. I think we can truly be grateful to the hard work of so many involved in the Mozilla Project as well as Webkit, but it's a shame it took those projects, and 10 long years for Microsoft to start really even talking web standards.

Oh, I love this: "Smart Tags caused immediate and vocal backlash among webmasters and content creators who sill harbor <i>quaint notions</i> that they, not Microsoft, should be in control the content and advertising at the sites they create."

"The browser war is over, and Microsoft has won. Now comes the occupation." What a great line, thank goodness for competition! I will think of it every someone says "but somebody is already doing that"

"Smart Tags caused immediate and vocal backlash among webmasters and content creators who sill harbor quaint notions that they, not Microsoft, should be in control the content and advertising at the sites they create."<p>A quaint notion indeed. It really was a different world back then.

After IE6 was released, WaSP took a gentle leave of absence, claiming that "Browser makers are no longer the problem": <a href="http://archive.webstandards.org/" rel="nofollow">http://archive.webstandards.org/</a>

Is it just me or does this site waste 80% of the browser with whitespace? I've never seen such big margins.

Thanks, Mozilla.

Kind of sad to see the champion of the revolution in those old days,Firefox,going down steadily to Chrome,the new,talented kid on the block.