This is actually a reasonable answer, having been around at that time. At one point, if it worked on IE it went out the door.
Actually I know that "one point". It was when Mozilla completely destroyed their browser platform with the horribly broken Netscape 4. Everybody stopped using it immediately.
Back then it was like "does it work on ie" and maybe "should we build an AOL presence?".
How many of those companies are still in business, relative to their competitors who chose instead to bet on cross-platform standards in the long term?
If you were developing back then, you know there was a conscious choice between using REALLY microsoft-specific stuff like .htc modules, and just not worrying if your layout was perfect in Netscape 3. It was easy to not care for a while there.
If you're developing now, you know how much time you save just not worrying about layout in dying browsers.
They had to worry about IE initially.. then when they made it big, they had the money/time/resources to focus on branching out. Today, to make it big you have to worry about a lot more platforms.. and that's only to get started. Sux!
