mishac

Whole bunch of stuff: http://caniuse.com/#compare=ie+9,ie+11

CSS Transitions is probably the biggest one, but there's a lot, and a ton of javascript improvements too.

Gecko was the rewrite of the rendering engine for Netscape 6. Netscape 4.7 (and earlier) didn't use Gecko.

Sorry do you mean it's 24 times slower? 24x performance makes it sound like it's 24x faster, which doesn't seem like it could possibly be true.

WHATWG maybe?

Also HTML is apparently more complex than JPEG and MP3. I'll remember that next time I"m hand-coding some audio files and using a machine to generate HTML.

IIRC WoW just provided a layer to point 32bit binaries to 32bit libraries on 64bit systems.

So you have the ass-backwards situation where %WINDIR%\System32 is full of 64bit dlls, and %WINDIR\SysWOW64 is full of 32bit dlls.

That's pretty much the point though: the fact of it being on sourceforge distracts from the contents of the project itself and turns every conversation into a "sourceforge sucks" circle jerk.

At this point, their reputation is so terrible that even if sourceforge was objectively better, it'd still be a good idea to move away from it.

Illumos is still around, with the support of many former Sun devs.

Wow I've never felt so appalled by a keyboard before! Why are the the left and right keys below and not above the down-left and down-right keys?

It's more indirect than that: the apps exist because of Mac using developers. Without the developers having access to Xcode/Swift/etc the quality and number of apps would decline in favor of android.

To be fair, microsoft's userbase requires backwards compatibility a lot more than apple's does, since Macs are largely consumer systems rather than enterprise ones.

Microsoft got flack for dropping 16bit app support in 64bit OSes (since 64 bit windows doesn't have NTVDM). They'd be flayed alive if they dropped 32bit support.

It exists in Canada, which is only marginally outside of the US.

Of course we call it General Tao's chicken (in Montreal at least, maybe elsewhere?).

In Montreal we call it General Tao's chicken. I have no idea why.

AIX is still around.

it was actually the most widely used real Unix at one (very dark) point.