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Originally, mostly for ideological reasons and because people simply followed the anti-Microsoft trend. Technologically, IE was not a bad browser when it was released and had quite a few advantages over Navigator/Communicator.

Of course, when Microsoft decided to abandon the whole thing and the competition (i.e. Mozilla) continued working on it, IE slowly lost these advantages.

So, down the line there were certainly also technological reasons why people were not too fond of it, but most of the dislike originated from said anti-Microsoft ideology. Of course, we are speaking here about 20ish years ago.

Coincidences or not, why should it suggest a simulation? That seems somewhat unrelated.

PHP does come with an incredible amount of functionality out of the box. Though that does not mean one may never have to intgrate a library.

That being said, the dependency insanity which became commonplace with JavaScript becoming more accepted as backend language is a different story of course.

Was it left-pad? :)

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What about standard permissions? The user is never prompted for them.