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posted January 25, 2008
MicroSoft's
web browser shoe-horned into versions of their windowing operating system since
version 4.
It was originally based on
Spyglass Mosaic involving some crafty and duplicitous licensing arrangements. Version 7 (2005 [beta] / 2006 [release]) contains none of this licensed code according to an internal MicroSoft audit.
Internet Explorer (IE, MSIE) is alternatively the bane or be-all for anyone working on the web. There are several glaring problems with its compatibility with standards, the way it internally implements things, and the way MicroSoft has
tied it into its operating system products.
It is slow to support standard features like
Portable Network Graphics and
XHTML. There are other problems which are unique to Internet Explorer because of the way it is implemented, such as certain widgets (such as the
select HTML element) being
implemented as their own window.