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Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Turns 15 Today

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That 'power saving feature' was the most irritating thing since pop-up advertising to anyone not using the mouse to scroll through.. I couldn't focus on the article because of the multiple interruptions and then the constant thought that I'd be interrupted again if I didn't move the mouse. Nice thought, horrible, horrible implementation.

Agreed, what a stupid thing to put on your site. It was enough to stop me reading after the first time it came up.

Just out of interest, is there any power saving benefit whatsoever gained from displaying black on a TFT screen? Surely the power usage comes from the back-light and that's on regardless?

Presumably it takes some (small amount of) extra power to download and run the javascript required for the effect so my guess would be that it actually increases power usage overall (a tiny amount, but still).

Just out of interest, is there any power saving benefit whatsoever gained from displaying black on a TFT screen?

Black pixels on a TFT may even increase your power usage (they must be turned on so that they don’t let through any light), if only marginally.

But we will come full circle soon. OLED displays do need more power for white pixels than for black pixels.

IE4 is an awesome browser. Persistent client side storage, AJAX, HW 3D animation, dynamic sound generation, dHTML+TIME, etc. You can even create desktop widgets in HTML+JS on Win98.

Well yes, you could create desktop widgets. I think that even worked in Win95 if you had IE4 installed. But then your whole computer became about as stable as IE4...

And since IE became an integral part of the operating system, from that point on, the OS was always as unstable as IE. Brilliant idea.

Of course we all new that it was a lie, despite Bill Gates testimony that it was impossible to separate the browser from the OS.

I remember using Windows 98 Light Edition or something. It was a hacked version of Windows with IE surgically removed. As fast and stable as Windows 95! :p

Yeah, it's weird how people tend to completely overlook that XMLHttpRequest is a Microsoft thing, originally it was to make the Outlook web client work.

The best part of this article is the screenshot of IE6 downloading Firefox.

I was a webmaster, back in those pre-IE days.

It was a crazy time.

It reminds me how irrelevant Microsoft is nowadays. They are always trying to push their standards without speaking to the community. It worked great for my father with his entire babyboomer-push-driven-information fellows. I don't believe this business would work again.

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