A eulogy for Internet Explorer @ NLHTML5

In six days Windows 10 will be released. For the first time since Windows 95, Internet Explorer will no longer be the default browser in Windows. That place has been taken by Microsoft Edge. So now would be a good time to say goodbye. 
A eulogy, if you will.

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1. A eulogy for Internet Explorer
   1995 — 2015
   Niels Leenheer NLHTML5 — 23 July 2015 at Xebia, Hilversum
   

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2. Internet Explorer 

   was a good browser
   

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3. Internet Explorer 6

   was a good browser…
   

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4. Internet Explorer 6

   was a good browser…
   in 2001
   

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8. And then Microsoft did nothing

   for five years…
   

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9. In 2006 Internet Explorer 6 was 

   not a good browser anymore…
   

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10. In the days of Internet Explorer 4 and 5,
    it was truly way ahead of its time
    

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11. opacity
    make elements translucent
    1997 Internet Explorer 4 supports opacity filters

    2001 opacity property appeared in CSS3 colors draft
    2004 Firefox 0.9 supports the opacity property
    

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12. @font-face
    use your own fonts in the browser
    1997 Internet Explorer 4 supports CSS @font-face
    2009 Firefox 3.5 supports CSS @font-face
    

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13. VML

    vector graphics for the web
    1999 Internet Explorer 5 supports VML

    2001 SVG specification released
    2004 first native SVG implementation
    

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14. HTML+TIME

    animations and transitions
    1999 Internet Explorer 5 supports HTML+TIME

    2007 CSS3 based animations and transitions in WebKit
    2009 CSS3 Animations and CSS3 Transitions published
    

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15. HTML components

    extend HTML with your own behaviour
    1999 Internet Explorer 5 supports HTML components

    2012 first Web Components draft published
    

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16. ContentEditable

    edit HTML in the browser
    1999 Internet Explorer 5 supports ContentEditable

    2005 Safari 2 supports ContentEditable
    2007 Firefox 3 supports ContentEditable
    2014 HTML5 specification published
    

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17. XMLHttpRequest

    load data from the server
    1999 Internet Explorer 5 supports Microsoft.XMLHTTP
    2000 Mozilla reverse engineers it
    2005 Interner Explorer 7 supports XMLHttpRequest
    2006 W3C published a working draft
    

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21. goodbye
    

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22. @html5test
    

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