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title: >
  Netscape 4 is newer than Internet Explorer 6
date: 2005-04-12 05:03
status: published
description: >
  If you thought Netscape 4 was outdated, check out IE6.

tags: Netscape, Netscape 4, Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer 6, web browsers, the Web, Microsoft, software

---

<p>
Browsing <a href="http://www.w3schools.com" title="Where “www.” is mandatory™">W3Schools</a>, I've found something interesting – <abbr title="Internet Explorer... or Immeasurably Evil if you want to go down that route">IE</abbr>6 is older than Netscape 4.
</p>
<p>
Sort of. From <a href="http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/default.asp" title="Browser Information (W3Schools)">their incomplete and somewhat dogmatastic overview of web browsers</a>: <q cite="http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_netscape.asp">Netscape Communicator 4.8 was released from Netscape in August 2002.</q> whereas <q cite="http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_explorer.asp">[Internet Explorer 6.0] was released in August 2001.</q>
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<p>
I know this has nothing to do with the age of the rendering engine, but dumb users know and care nothing about the rendering engine; in their eyes Netscape 4.8 is newer than IE6.
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<p>
So if you're gonna stop supporting one of them next time you design a website, shouldn't it be the oldest? (Ideally, screw both of them.)
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