why did microsoft stop making the internet explorer for the mac os?

jvc08 · 10-08-2008, 05:23 AM

no one liked it, or something?

Anti-Trend · 10-08-2008, 05:17 AM

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Originally Posted by jvc08

no one liked it, or something?

Well, to be totally honest, MS did Apple a favor by not making IE for Mac anymore. IE is an awful browser which was designed for two purposes:

Kill Netscape
Make the web proprietary (i.e. broken in a way that's favorable to MS)

On the first goal, they succeeded completely. As for the second, that's still an ongoing fight. Firefox, Safari, Opera, these are all quite standards-compliant compared to IE. For example, try taking the Acid 2 Test. It measures CSS compatibility in modern browsers. First try rendering in IE 7, then Firefox 3. Which renders better? How about Opera 9? Safari? Konqueror? Flock?

jvc08 · 10-08-2008, 05:46 AM

thanks for replying

but you didn't answer my question, why did ms stop making ie for the mac os?

Anti-Trend · 10-08-2008, 05:53 AM

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Originally Posted by jvc08

but you didn't answer my question, why did ms stop making ie for the mac os?

They decided IE had twisted standards enough to their advantage that there was no benefit of developing it for Mac OS any longer. In other words, there were enough "IE only" websites to possibly persuade some Mac people to leave Apple for MS.

jvc08 · 10-08-2008, 06:28 AM

thanks

could you explain a bit more? please?

Anti-Trend · 10-08-2008, 07:06 AM

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Originally Posted by jvc08

thanks

could you explain a bit more? please?

Am I writing a term paper for you or what?

RHochstenbach · 10-08-2008, 09:01 AM

In 1997, Apple made a 5-year agreement with Microsoft to include Internet Explorer with the Macintosh operating system. After these 5 years, they where creating their own browser called Safari. It was then included with Mac OS X from 2003. So because Safari was then bundled with Mac OS instead of IE, there was no need to use IE on the Mac anymore.
More information here

Anti-Trend · 10-08-2008, 09:09 AM

MS had stopped updating IE in a major way on the Mac long before 2005 though, as the latest build was 5.x.

Sniper · 10-08-2008, 09:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Anti-Trend

Am I writing a term paper for you or what?

lol, sounds like it.

if you really want to run IE you can do ies4osx

jvc08 · 11-08-2008, 10:23 PM

Thanks!

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