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Written by: Patrick Salomon on Aug 18 2010, 9:05am

Happy Birthday Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer is 15 years old.

Starting in 1995, Internet Explorer is still the most used browser, all version included.

Take a look at what it was, and what it is now :

1995 : Internet Explorer 1, not include in windows 95, alomost nothing.

1995 : Internet Explorer 2, allow SSL, cookies

1996 : Internet Explorer 3, CSS, come with mail, allow streaming without third party, and can show JPEG and GIF images

1997 : Internet Explorer 4, DHTML, outlook express

1998 : Internet Explorer 5, pluggin, customization, Ajax ready

2001 : Internet Explorer 6, more secure (no comments), come with XP

2006 : Internet Explorer 7, more standards support, malware protection, tabbed browsing, RSS, search, 

2009 : Internet Explorer 8, a better IE 7

2011 : Internet Explorer 9, HTML5, CSS3, better JS

Many others features have been released with all IE versions, but this is the most noticeable.

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Miguel Esquirol says:

Nice chart, thanks

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Nico Westerdale says:

IE3 was the most revolutionary browser of it's time. We saw the invention of the Document Object Model and a framework for JavaScript that still serves to this day.

IE was a groundbreaking browser up until v6, if anyone remembers coding for Netscape Navigator 4 then you'll know my pain, remember the LAYER tag anyone? Then five years of nothing. 7 and 8 were catchup releases with Firefox 2 becoming the technological leader of the pack and Chrome and Safari carving out their fanboy niches.

Chances are 9 will be a solid browser once more, and bang up to date on all the tech specs at last. In terms of rendering HTML there is very little separating the browsers and the gap is getting smaller.

Web developers complain hard about still supporting IE6, which has an instal base in the corporate world and older machines. It's worth asking what other applications do use from that era? Probably none. If IE6 is that bad then why is it still used by millions?

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