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I'm slightly confused by the combination of "introduced in Internet Explorer 5.5" and "offers a powerful new way" being written in an article posted on August 28, 2017

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FTA: cough OK, obviously it’s 2017 and Internet Explorer 5.5 isn’t relevant anymore. But if you’re a Web developer, this should have given you some pause for thought. The modern Web Components pillars: Templates, Custom Elements, Shadow DOM, and Imports, were all features originally in IE5, released in 1999.

It was a truly great release.

haha, it really was too, no hint of sarcasm! Young'uns these days probably can't believe what a saviour Microsoft from the clusterfudge that Navigator represented back then.

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Typed on Firefox :)

Oh no, I agree. IE got its bad reputation due to neglect, not because it originally wasn’t good.

It just wasn’t good enough to last 10 years without updates

Is that really true? IE 5.5 had shadow Dom?

Yes, it's described by the article.

To a great degree, "modern web standards" are an exercise in reinventing proprietary Microsoft stuff from the 1990s.

(Or replacing some thing that Java or Flash had done for years.)

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