We tend to forget how advanced IE for both Windows and Mac when they still made it was in fact the first to implement #CSS (IE 3) and while we suffered IE 6 lasted a long time despite the problems with interop. Sad to see #IE and #Edge go and #Chrome monoculture emerge. We tried!

So true — my thoughts were similar on hearing the news, too — thanks to all of you who worked at /with Microsoft to move the web standards movement forward