The innovations of Internet Explorer

'Tis true. Part of the reason we're stuck with so many people still using old versions of IE today is because, a decade ago, IE really was The Best Thing. There are neat, useful things from IE5 for which equivalents still aren't available in any other browser- like native HTML dialog boxes, or custom tags defined with DHTML Behaviors. When I first started writing desktop applications, they were HyperText Applications, also introduced with IE5.

I used to love developing for IE- even if it wasn't 'standard', it was better. And then Chrome came out, and IE started lagging behind. And we've moved on to new experimental features in new browsers with all their vendor prefixes and such.

"Microsoft took the opposite approach and came up with event bubbling. They believed that the event should begin at the actual target and then fire on the parents and so on up to the document."

Not original with Microsoft. Appeared in Apple's Hypercard. (Proving again that it's not how you feel, it's how you look.)