Comment by thomassmith65

  It wasnt about "respecting users", or "agency" but simply implemented standards properly.

That's the story of how Netscape succeeded against MSIE. Only they didn't. Firefox did.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape:

  In November 2007, IE had 77.4% of the browser market, Firefox 16.0%, and Netscape 0.6%