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06/13/2003, 1:00pm, EDT
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MacUser UK: no more IE developement from MS
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Roz Ho, the general manager of Microsoft's Mac Business Unit, has confirmed that no future versions of Internet Explorer will be released for the Mac, according to PC Pro: "Ho says that the decision has been made to make way for Apple's own Safari browser. 'Some of the key customer requests for web browsing on the Mac require close development between the browser and the OS, something to which only Apple has access,' she explained. 'As part of the OS (operating system), IE will continue to evolve, but there will be no future standalone installations. IE6 SP1 [for Windows] is the final standalone installation,' Microsoft's Brian Countryman said in a recent interview."
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Good riddance.
From a development standpoint, this is good news. It's becoming easier to delineate between browsers based on the OS the client is running.
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That sounds familiar...
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One way Apple could screw them royally would be to make Safari open source. Fat chance of that...
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So, anyone else could use the same core, and develop it from there. In fact, even Microsoft could grab it, and get a great browser in return -- why dobn't they? "not-invented-here" syndrome.
Cognitive dissonance at its very best.
Agreed with everyone, though -- good riddance to a pretty crappy and badly coded product. Overall, between Camino and Safari, there was no space left for IE anyway.
-Harry
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Either way, IE does have some nice features that I miss in Safari (auto complete--not autofill, keyboard navigation in forms, better download manager, pixel dimensions of images opened in a new window, etc.). Hopefully, Apple can/will fold those features into Safari soon. It would have been interesting to see M$ use Web Core like OmniWeb has.
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so i imagine that if there is no version on the mac, my boss will have to get me a pc next time, and that is a good decision since everybody looking at our site use ie for windows and i can't check on my mac. and slow emulation is not an answer.
nope, this is not a good news at all
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I use Safari 99% of the time, but there are still sites out there that break under Safari. This is bad news.
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