My point was that Internet Explorer has only come above the competition because of the way its forced upon Microsoft Windows Users. Those users can't even view a list of files without it using Internet Explorer. You can, with a lot of work, remove the whole Internet Explorer integration and Internet Explorer too, but it's not an ideal thing to do.
Microsoft didn't add any great new technologies, they corrupted what was there, Java, Java Script, HTML, and distributed it starting with Windows 98 as default, integrated into the OS. When I ran Windows 95, I ran netscape. In Windows98, it didn't seem feasible to the people who owned the PC to download another browser, when IE was so integrated and big.
I visit websites, not for their latest Technical use, but to see information, maybe interact with a java applet on rare occassions. So if people writing webpages stuck to using HTML code as defined (would you write a C program using your own syntax and keywords, instead of those in a standard?) in the standards, there would be no compattibility issue for your standard internet browsing. Yes, Things like ActiveX may be great, and if there is something you want to use it with, you're going to need Internet Explorer, but thats a special case, and that is Microsoft adding new technology, instead of corrupting another.
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