It happened in 2001, you're off by 8 years.
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Tja@programming.dev 10 months agoThis happened in 2009, when IE had a market share of 56% and declining. IE is (arguably) defunct because it sucked, not because of a one-time, court-mandated popup.
FaceDeer@fedia.io 10 months ago
Tja@programming.dev 10 months ago
Back then Chrome didn’t exist and they didn’t implement the pop up, just assigned some overview and opened some APIs.
FaceDeer@fedia.io 10 months ago
Seems to me they continued to take actions in 2009 as a result of their loss in 2001. "Some overview" continued after the case was decided. Unless there was a subsequent court case I'm unaware of?
Tja@programming.dev 10 months ago
The 2009 dispute was in the EU, to begin with.
Cosmicomical@lemmy.world 10 months ago
IE sucked since the beginning, that’s not the reason it died.
Tja@programming.dev 10 months ago
Everything sucked back then.
Then Mozilla started not sucking, then in 2008 Chrome came out and in 2009 when the popup was mandated, IE had declined to 56% market share from 90% highs years earlier.