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The screen shot really sucks...could we get one where the page is properly rendered.Smallman12q (talk) 16:42, 13 March 2010 (UTC)Reply

Perhaps because a web browser from 1995 can not be expected to render it properly. It appears it did not even support the "<style>" tag for embedded style sheets.

At this point, Internet Explorer 2 (and several versions thereafter) can not even connect to Wikipedia due to lacking TLS 1.2. Elominius (talk) 00:33, 24 May 2022 (UTC)Reply

Could someone get an screenshot off Google? That screenshot sucks!!! It shows an incorrectly rendered wikipedia. 180.222.0.158 (talk) 23:33, 23 April 2010 (UTC)Reply

Good luck finding one that is correctly rendered. ;-) See my response above. Elominius (talk) 12:45, 9 June 2022 (UTC) (last edited on 17:09, 9 June 2022 (UTC))Reply

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The article says that this browser was the first of the IE's to support JavaScript. But the JavaScript article says that it was released December 4, 1995. How can IE 2, released November 22, 1995, have supported a language that was not released for browsers until after it shipped? --96.93.223.61 (talk) 18:23, 7 August 2017 (UTC)Reply

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Yes, it certainly can. You should probably study the JavaScript article more carefully. JavaScript was available to Microsoft in September. Given the fact that Microsoft didn't care for standardization of implementations at the time, they could pretty much ship whatever they wanted under the title of JavaScript support.

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Codename Lisa (talk) 05:18, 8 August 2017 (UTC)Reply

What would be the point of it being solely available to Microsoft while no documentation is available to third-party web developers? "Available" does not necessarily mean implemented. The article mentions that Netscape Navigator had a predecessor of it called "LiveScript" as early as September 1995. Elominius (talk) 00:59, 24 May 2022 (UTC)Reply

I conducted my own research to prove this claim and indeed IE2 does not support JavaScript the sligthest, my results and testing methodology are present in this medium blog page.

TheGhostOfInky (talk) 01:03, 24 October 2021 (UTC)Reply

That's helpful! Thank you for your work. I have tagged Internet Explorer 2's supposed JavaScript support as dubious today. Elominius (talk) 01:02, 24 May 2022 (UTC)Reply

According to the respective articles, JavaScript first appeared in December 1995, Microsoft JScript in 1996, and ECMAScript in 1997, whereas Internet Explorer 2 was published in October 1995. The 2005 Microsoft.com archive source actually claims that Internet Explorer 2 had JavaScript, but how is that possible if JavaScript came after it?

It also contradicts with this source found on the "JavaScript" article, which claims Internet Explorer 3 was the first version to support JavaScript (rebranded as "JScript").

That's strange. Elominius (talk) 00:05, 24 May 2022 (UTC)Reply

Also, I have never seen any version of Internet Explorer earlier than 3 listed in the compatibility tables on MDN web docs. Elominius (talk) 01:17, 24 May 2022 (UTC)Reply

+1 for removing the mention of JavaScript. Microsoft's old JScript version history table doesn't mention anything before Internet Explorer 3.0.^[1] huntertur (talk) 19:26, 24 May 2022 (UTC)Reply