Or it would have turned into ActiveX. Great on Windows, not so great (if extant) on anything else.
If anything, Flash was multi-platform. You got the same flash on Linux, Mac and Windows.
"Microsoft Java" would be anything but.
If anything, Flash was multi-platform. You got the same flash on Linux, Mac and Windows.
"Microsoft Java" would be anything but.
If you remember how Mozilla had to include all the IE6 mistakes all web programmers assumed were standard?
And yes, back then definitely Microsoft was in EEE mode. They would do anything they possibly could do to keep the internet Windows only
I mean, it still has a relatively small market.
If you can save a week's work and make your site work on 97% of computers, or spend another week to get it to 99%, what would you do?
And in truth, Mozilla/Opera/other HTML browsers had around 10 percent of marketshare even during the heydays of IE6's reign, and yet plenty of websites only worked on IE6.
Would programmers care about those five percent of Mac users?