Tantek announces the end of Internet Explorer for Macintosh as a standalone package. The browser will live on as part of the MSN client for Mac OS.
Back in the late 20th Century, I received an email from CSS guru Todd Fahrner asking if I’d played with IE5 for Mac yet. I had, and it was great. As others have testified, IE5 was for it’s time the best CSS implementation on the market. It was my primary browser for nearly four years until the advent of Mozilla 1.0 and Safari.
It had its problems, the usual impedance mismatches in DOM, and no support for XSLT 1.0. But it’d render XML as an outline, complete with controls, and Mozilla only included that feature recently. Thank you Tantek and the rest of the IE Mac team.
