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[Edward]

Cnet article

Microsoft is halting development of Internet Explorer for the Macintosh. A Microsoft product manager is quoted in the article.

(Another reason for Netscape to survive. People who don't like Apple's Safari browser can go to Netscape.)

UserAgent: Opera/7.11 (Linux 2.4.20-4GB i586; U) [en]

[Josh]

Great News!!!

I loathe Mac IE!!!

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529

[DJGM]

Hmmm, I have somewhat mixed feelings about this. Although I've always hated Internet Exploiter
on Windows, I always considered the Macintosh version of Internet Explorer, to be a far superior
product, when compared with it's lame Windows counterpart, for the following reasons . . .

Better W3C compliance than Internet Explorer for Windows
Fewer security vulnerabilities, than IE for Windows, by far.
Easy Removal: drag the IE folder to Trash: Empty Trash!
Not built into the OS, so removal causes no problems.
Much nicer UI than Internet Explorer on Windows.

Eitherway, even though for the above reasons, and various other reasons that I can't bothered to
go and find out about, Internet Explorer for the Macintosh, was many magnitudes better than it's
crappy and insecure Windows counterpart, even though technically, they're both equally obsolete!

Still, seeing as there are several other web browsers available for Macintosh, mostly Mozilla/Gecko
based, and of course Apple own excellent Safari, just as I thought might happen, the next major
release of Mac OS X (v10.3 - due next year) will have Safari as the default browser instead of IE.
In fact, now that IE for Mac has been discontinued, there are no longer any compelling reasons
for Mac users to continue using IE, except only for Mac based webdevs, testing their pages.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/74 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/74

[Josh]

DJGM, does Mac IE for OS9/X start with 'Mozilla/4.0' or 'Mozilla/5.0'?

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529

[DJGM]

This message was posted with Internet Explorer 5.2.2 for Mac OS X. As you
can see below, "Mozilla/4.0" at the start of the UA string. Heck, it doesn't
even show whether it's running on Mac OS X or "classic" Mac OS. The
last version of Internet Explorer for the "classic" Mac OS, was 5.1.6.

Even though they're discontinuing development of IE on the Mac, a minor
incremental update version 5.2.3 update for Mac OS X is to be released
next week, and a minor update to 5.1.6 is to be released next month
for those still using IE on "classic" Mac OS version 8.6 - 9.2.2 . . .

UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.22; Mac_PowerPC)