MS ends MSIE on OSX

[mobrien_12]

http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/05/12/18/227225.shtml?tid=113&tid=3

Maybe now we'll see more websites that are standards compliant.

[Calum]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4542750.stm

yes indeed. the bbc article i mention above says 10% of websites don't work properly with firefox, essentially pointing out that those sites are non IE compliant. In my opinion, this will simply mean IE specific sites get less visitors, so there will end up being less IE specific sites.

[Aloone_Jonez]

I can't remember the last time I saw an Active X control apart on a website from Windows update or one of those dodgy online spy/adware scanners of course.

[WMD]

IE for Mac is so bad, they probably want to cancel it out of embarassment.  I know I would.  It doesn't even work with MS's own websites sometimes!

[themacuser]

Finally Microsoft does something good for the world.

It only had about 80% marketshare on the Mac since Netscape died...

Safari truly murdered it, and Firefox finished the job off.

[worker201]

I can't remember the last time I saw an Active X control apart on a website from Windows update or one of those dodgy online spy/adware scanners of course.

ActiveX is not the only problem IE has.  Support for CSS1, CSS2, and even XML has been dodgy in IE since it was first released.  And the Mac version of IE has always been somewhat different than the Windows version, with the same page rendering differently on either platform.

So that's 3 major OS classes (OSX, Linux, BSD) that are IE free.  Who is next?

[Aloone_Jonez]

Windows - one can only hope.

[MarathoN]

Windows - one can only hope.

Yeah, I hope IE7 spells the end for IE. :p

[skyman8081]

Wasn't IE for the Mac made by a completely different team at MS, and was actually standards-compliant with a lot of things, Like CSS1, HTML4, PNG1, and a few others?

[cymon]

Finally Microsoft does something good for the world.

It only had about 80% marketshare on the Mac since Netscape died...

Safari truly murdered it, and Firefox finished the job off.

Safari didn't need any help pwnzorzing IE.

And technically, OSX is part of the BSD family.

[piratePenguin]

Safari didn't need any help pwnzorzing IE.

Yea well, Apple didn't do it alone. They had the help of KHTML (from the Konqueror people. Nothing to do with Firefox, I know.).

[WMD]

Wasn't IE for the Mac made by a completely different team at MS, and was actually standards-compliant with a lot of things, Like CSS1, HTML4, PNG1, and a few others?

Supposedly, yes.  But at this point, it doesn't render a lot of pages very well, from 5 years of neglect.  It's also pretty slow.

[worker201]

Wasn't IE for the Mac made by a completely different team at MS, and was actually standards-compliant with a lot of things, Like CSS1, HTML4, PNG1, and a few others?

That may be true.  But both Mac and Win IE's CSS2 implementations were ghastly.  And different.  Which caused a lot of troubles, allowing Safari to sweep in and save the day.

[hm_murdock]

Forget 'em all. There's Shiira. Take Safari and make it better and you have Shiira.

[themacuser]

Hmmm, I prefer Safari. Shiira just seems to be a bit wierd.

If you want something cool, try the WebKit nightly builds on nightly.webkit.org. They're occasionally unstable, or defective, but nowehre near as bad as IE.