That was the problem in reality. The proprietary extensions were almost irrelevant, unless you were a big fan of blinking text. The issue was those two stagnant browsers were strangling the web, IE & Microsoft doing so with malice.
The fact that we can even make that comparison with a straight face shows just how far we've come. You literally just tried to equate a browser market in which there are 4 very active and competitive players releasing new versions daily/weekly, to one where a near monopoly kept the same browser version on the market for six years.
Yep, why do you think the WaSP was created? AFAIK this war began with Netscape having a monopoly back in 1995, which effectively killed HTML 3.0 and resulted in 3.2.
