Internet Explorer
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
20warn against
Nov 19, 2025first mention
Oct 14, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“That browser was the first really modern one”
“I remember when IE implemented XMLHTTPRequest, and it did a lot of good for the web.”
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“I even liked Internet Explorer 5.”
Caveats and dissent
“nobody got to quit dealing with the misery of IE6”
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“Internet Explorer never had position: sticky”
Often compared with
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Also written as Internet Explorer 11, Internet Explorer 5. Data: internet-explorer.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 32
“It's the nre Internet Explorer”
“nobody got to quit dealing with the misery of IE6”
Google Chrome launch comic for nostalgia: https://scottmccloud.com/googlechrome/ Also good context for why the launch of Chrome was such a big deal.
“Microsoft explained that the latest versions of Windows 95 would not work under such a scenario”
“Internet Explorer never had position: sticky”
“I recall IE5 had quirks.”
“IE was an albatross around every web developers neck”
“due to them building a monopoly in the browser space and then abandoning it”
“I’d already moved IE7 to “functional” support in late 2016”
An excellent list of modern CSS: https://nerdy.dev/cascading-secret-sauce. There's also https://modern-css.com/.
“bundling Internet Explorer rather than having two separate produces”
“That browser was the first really modern one”
“they broke so many standards and implemented them in closed source”
“I remember the times when IE passed ACID test?”
“I know I was still using IE for some ActiveX web apps for a while.”
“your only option is to pay $200 for Windows + Internet Explorer.”
“I remember when IE implemented XMLHTTPRequest, and it did a lot of good for the web.”
“the dumpster fire that was IE6”
“I even liked Internet Explorer 5.”
“IE6-8 in particular were really bad”
“0.02% as of January 2026”
“bundling an incompatible version of Java with IE”
“The IE 11 desktop application remains supported on a number of Windows LTSC versions”
“IE-level adware/spyware shenanigans that led to him fleeing to Firefox”
“You had to do this to make :hover work correctly for IE6—IE8”
“Internet Explorer, the most popular browser, was essentially frozen apart from security fixes”
“Many years ago, IE requires `document.createElement`.”
“at least Microsoft didn't forbid installation of any other browser engine”
“the atrocity that was internet explorer”
“IE was terrible”
“they later switched to IE-style icons with distinct shapes, which was better”
“remember when South Korean banks forced the country to use ActiveX and Internet Explorer?”