Internet Explorer cold? No way!

I happened to see a very interesting screenshot in moments today.

The tongue-in-cheek q&A addresses the popular topic of Internet Explorer going cold.

As IE has been with us for so many years, why is it suddenly cold?

That’s when it all started.

In 1995, Microsoft released Internet Explorer 1.0, the king of browsers at the time, Netscape. Internet Explorer was rudimentary at the time, but it could do one thing that was very core at the time – surf the Web.

But Internet Explorer was still way behind Netscape, and the advent of Internet Explorer 2.0 and 3.0 didn’t change that, because the first versions of Internet Explorer were always packaged as an optional installation for Windows. But IE has a very hard background, which is the Windows operating system.

Starting from IE 4, it established the king position of Internet Explorer in the browser. It was bundled in Windows 98, and every Windows operating system computer would have an Internet Explorer browser installed by default. Under the stimulation of this hegemony, netscape browser died and Microsoft continued to Sue.

With the release of IE 5 in 1995, IE began to dominate the global browser market. However, with the end of IE 6, which was dubbed as “the worst technology product in history”, and the end of the lawsuit between Microsoft and Netscape, users can decide the right to use the browser. With the encroachment of Firefox, Chrome and other browsers, IE 9’s market share in 2011 has been significantly reduced.

Here’s a breakdown of the market share of each major browser since 2009.

As you can see from this chart, chrome is currently the most popular browser in the browser market, safari has a relatively regular audience, Edge is still growing, and IE and Firefox are lagging behind. Chrome has exploded since 2009, with nearly 70% of the market now, while Internet Explorer’s market share peaked at 90%. And there was no such thing as a crowded browser environment to see how powerful Chrome was.

Since the release of IE 8, updates to IE have been lukewarm. IE 10 was released in 2012, which has been used by Windows 8 and Windows 7, and the final version of IE is stuck in IE 11, which announces that IE’s mission is coming to an end. It will be replaced by a browser called Edge.

Looking back at the long history of THE development of IE, it is not difficult to find that IE is like an outdated Internet celebrity, with a strong background operation team to succeed in the top, occupying everyone’s attention, but IE has not been respected by people, because it lacks something that makes us win over. And the speed of IE is unspeakable, as illustrated by the picture below.

Why is IE so slow? Or why is Internet Explorer slow?

In fact, in terms of pure rendering speed, IE can catch up with other mainstream browsers, but the response speed of IE is very slow. I used to use Chrome, IE and Firefox a lot in my work, and usually the switching between Chrome and Firefox was smooth. Switching to IE is constipated, and IE responds faster than Chrome and Firefox combined! Firefox does occasionally experience a slow wake up, but it’s not as frequent and doesn’t last very long. That almost never happens with Chrome.

It’s also very important that, initially, Microsoft wasn’t really interested in Web standards, and went its own way with features and plug-ins. Microsoft deeply integrated IE into Windows and used anti-competitive behavior to eliminate competitors. Once they got it under control, they stopped new development and left us with IE6.

When Firefox and Chrome came along, they started over and pursued speed and standards compliance. They are independent of a particular version of Windows and maintain rapid development. Microsoft, meanwhile, raced to catch up, but was overwhelmed by their baggage of junk technology and the need to be backward compatible with their traditional decisions, which meant businesses relied on ActiveX plug-ins. Microsoft finally began to improve IE, but much later than others, and after losing most of its market share, it was a spent force.

Internet Explorer in the eyes of programmers

I believe that more than 80% of programmers have heard Leader say that compatibility with IE is the word we do not want to hear. Compatibility with IE seems to be every programmer’s nightmare, because it has to mean that you have to modify the code again. The workload of one day had to be completed in two days. I believe front-end engineers know that compatibility with IE is a nightmare. But now that Microsoft has officially abandoned IE, there’s a sigh of relief. Wait, is there really a sigh of relief? I believe the vast majority of software companies do not want to see IE abandoned, instead they want IE updated forever… Emmmm, that’s a bit of a stretch. They should be thinking, you are more free, you are more free.

The vast majority of traditional companies’ customers are governments, agencies, etc., and they like stability. Stability means consistency; Stability means that you have to do a lot of repetitive and boring optimization work, and these repetitive work is encountered in the extremely slow RESPONSE of IE, often debugging the old dead. As a new generation of programmers, of course we want to use cutting-edge technology, we want to use Chrome browser debugging, don’t ask me why, just smell! This represents a we constantly pursuit of progress in exploration and a kind of spirit, this also is the fundamental guarantee of scientific and technological progress, rather than had been on the tools and techniques used to be eliminated, I believe that some of the traditional software companies still IE8 believers, because they still want money, because the iteration technique is to pay a cost, so at home, The incentive to use IE is purely economic.

So, we as proud Chinese children, must not give up IE, dog head to protect life.

But to be honest, IE still give us a lot of happiness, I think of the primary school junior high school computer class with a computer to play 4399 miniclip games of the scene, at that time, the blue with an E sign of this thing, it is a paradise ah! After 00 do not spray!

Afterword.

It is my first time to write a pan-Internet article. I am not quite sure what I have written. I hope readers can excuse me. =

But if you like this kind of article, can you give me a thumbs up? Knowing that these kinds of articles are still read gives me the motivation to keep writing.

I have uploaded six PDFS by myself, and the spread has exceeded 10W + on the Internet. After searching the public account of “Programmer Cxuan” on wechat, I reply to CXuan on the background and get all PDFS. These PDFS are as follows

Six PDF links