sfw only
We won but they replaced IE6 by Google Chrome so it really is a "we won but at what cost" type situation.
(And somehow people keep parroting the "Safari is the new IE6" joke as if Google wasn't even more controlling of the Web than Microsoft was back then lolsob)
Safari killed Flash so of course it was the greatest evil, Chrome was just a plucky upstart freeing us from the tyranny of IE6. Firefox was just Firefox, hanging out, being chill.
chrome is still actively developed though. like google being the dominant player isn't good but the core problem with ie6 was that it was (a) wrong (b) buggy even when it was right (c) abandoned
Safari might be slow to adopt new technologies but at least they stick to standards instead of just making up their own (afaik)
Whenever I look at any feature needed to get good typography in websites I see that Firefox partially implemented it in 2004, finished it in like 2010, Safari added it in either 2008 or 2012 or something, and Chrome got around to adding it in 2023. Chrome is way ahead on random JS APIs they made up and I feel like they’re behind on everything else.
IE6 lives on as Edge Compatibility Mode.
And in finance I know for a fact it's used to this day. Because someone can't be arsed to hire/get someone to update their SharePoint deployment for that portal.
