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Don't have to when you they have achived a functionally total monopoloy


IE6 had that as well, until it didn’t.


The only reason IE lost its monopoly is because MS entirely abandoned working on it for years. They had to build a new team from scratch when they eventually decided to begin work on IE7.


That’s the period of time that html and JavaScript was static or stagnant depending on your perspective




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