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When IE took over the market, it was implementing new features at a breakneck pace. The browser wars were not "IE sits still and gains market share"--they were "IE develops rapidly, takes over the market, and then stops development".

AJAX, bi-directional text, most conformant CSS 2.0 browser, border-box sizing CSS model are all things where IE was ahead of the times. The reason people hated IE was because it implemented only "just enough" to get ahead and then sat on their asses until someone catched up. That's where the antitrust came from.

I believe, order is reverse. IE team was dismantled after the antitrust suit.

Sorry, Chrome is not open-sourced, Chromium is.

That is a valid point, thank you for bringing it up.