July 4th, 2011

A handful of trips through the time machine

A few trips through the time machine:

In the Internet Explorer time machine video, I was struck by the remark, “Appearance-wise, very little had changed [in Internet Explorer 4] since IE3. Not much changed in terms of functionality, either.” In fact, Internet Explorer 4 was probably the most significant revision of Internet Explorer in its history, because that’s the version that completely replaced the old layout engine with a new one code-named Trident, the layout engine that continues to power Internet Explorer today. Another case of “When you change the insides, nobody notices.”

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Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 30 years. In 2003, he began a Web site known as The Old New Thing which has grown in popularity far beyond his wildest imagination, a development which still gives him the heebie-jeebies. The Web site spawned a book, coincidentally also titled The Old New Thing (Addison Wesley 2007). He occasionally appears on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account to tell stories which convey no useful information.

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