Well, historically, when Microsoft was still in competition-mode, Internet Explorer was kicking Netscape&#x27;s ass with the later versions.<p>With the first few versions they were playing catch-up, but if I recall correctly, IE 4 and IE 5 actually had more features and better standards compliance than the current Netscape versions, as did IE 6 at its launch.<p>&quot;IE hell&quot; started once Microsoft won the race.