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2009

Microsoft was slowing development of new versions of Internet Explorer in the hope that Web-based applications would not be able to compete with Windows applications, and Windows applications would keep people locked in to the Windows operating system. Thus XHTML2 was developed with no expectation that the leading Web browser would ever implement it.

David Baron

# 8th July 2009, 8:30 pm / david-baron, xhtml, xhtml2, microsoft, ie, web-standards