Problems IE6 *didn't* have: - Windows allowed other engines, not just other skins on a busted one -- that's how FF happened! - Other browsers embedding MSHTML.dll weren't broken in ways they couldn't repair (it was All COM All The Time (TM)) - Extensibility was a virtue https://twitter.com/_alastair/status/1214956116234424323 …
...because MSFT enabled BHO's and a pluggable netstack for embedders of MSHTML.dll. Wouldn't have fixed everything, but they were enough to make Google Gears possible, which was equivalently powerful.
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