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Same was true for IE, IE for instance pioneered asynchronous requests (which is pretty much the norm these days) and things like that - still was a bad browser though.


That's one point of comparison that glosses over Chrome's compliance with standards in stark contrast to IE.


Google is just playing the game (embrace, extend, extinguish) - meaning the outcome they try to achieve is the same.


I think the difference is that IE stopped innovating once they had the market cornered. Chrome is continously on the cutting edge of features and specs, even after it became the #1 browser.


It became bad when it stopped making progress, because the team was largely disbanded and the product stagnated in maintenance mode.




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