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Note those releases were based on an entirely different codebase to the Windows version of IE.
by gsnedders 9y ago
Note those releases were based on an entirely different codebase to the Windows version of IE.
- thristian 9y agoInternet Explorer for Mac was a separate codebase from the Windows version. The Unix workstation versions (HP-UX, AIX, etc.) were built with a commercial equivalent to Winelib: a library that implemented Win32 APIs on top of Unix and X11. I have no idea how they managed to build the IE code on a compiler that wasn't MSVC.
- gardnr 9y agoWhen you say "entirely different" you mean they didn't even share the same rendering engine?
- gsnedders 9y agoThe sibling suggests that non-Mac ports shared the Trident rendering engine with IE/Win. IE/Mac used Tasman, which was totally different (and was the first implementation of many CSS 3 features); as far as I'm aware there was no code shared at all between IE/Win and IE/Mac.