It happened in 2001, you're off by 8 years.
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Tja@programming.dev 8 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 8 months ago
Tja@programming.dev 8 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 8 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 8 months ago
The 2009 dispute was in the EU, to begin with.
Cosmicomical@lemmy.world 8 months ago
IE sucked since the beginning, that’s not the reason it died.
Tja@programming.dev 8 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.