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Firefox browser ignites a fire under complacent Microsoft
Calum:
internet explorer, while it is still not a lot of cop, is (in my humble opinion) a better browser on macintosh systems.
i heard this is because a different team developed it, and of course, the mac developers for IE didn't have all that "integrated into the browser" hoo haa creating pressure from above.
but anyway...
bedouin:
IE for Mac OS 9 was great. No complaints from me really and I despise Microsoft. The carbonized OS X version was a different story though. When Safari arrived MS declared that "there's no sense in competing with a pack-in browser" and quit updating IE for Mac. Ironic, isn't it? The best part was when they claimed Safari would be inherently better because Apple had access to the internal workings of OS X and Microsoft did not, which is BS. Camino and Firefox are doing just fine.
From a standards perspective, Mac IE was no doubt more compliant than any Windows version.
themacuser:
--- Quote from: bedouin ---It still comes with a default OS X installation, but Apple moved it out of the dock and made Safari the default browser at 10.3.
--- End quote ---
And it doesn't install by default, when installing you go into the custom installation and set it up.
And IE was NEVER good at any stage I've found. Netscape 6 was a bit awful but IE was worse.
Aloone_Jonez:
I have a feeling MS might actually make IE 7 a half decent browser. Well if they do they'll probably just copy FireFox and Opera anyway. This would still be shit as they continue to bastardise the standard and take over the Internet.
themacuser:
Or that they'll intergrate it with windows even tighter and "accidentally" change the API for apps so that it breaks firefox...
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