Re: Poor compliance with web standards
> IE was, for many years, the web standard. Compliance was good by definition. You might not like that web standard. Many people didn't, which is why they created new web standards which specifically were different than the existing web standard (IE).
You obviously have no idea about history.
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was founded in 1994 and produced a set of standards. IE was released in late 1995 when there there were several other browsers in use.
Microsoft was a late comer to the internet and tried to ignore it. With Windows 95 they included access to the (original) MSN which was a closed network only for Windows 95 users. To get access to the internet the later !Plus Pack was required (or 3rd party networking).
IE always had non-standard 'features' and was never 'the standard'.