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IE6 was closed source and only ran on Windows... Chromium/Blink run cross platform, open source and already 2 forks in. There's some stark contrast, even if it
by tracker1 7y ago
IE6 was closed source and only ran on Windows... Chromium/Blink run cross platform, open source and already 2 forks in. There's some stark contrast, even if it's more of a mono-culture, it's nothing like the IE6 days, even if google does have more power/control than other stakeholders.
- tomc1985 7y agoIE had a mac version, but it died due to lack of interest/support
- kalleboo 7y agoThe Mac version had a completely different, incompatible, renderer (which was actually better than the Windows one from a standards perspective) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasman_(layout_engine) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasman_(layout_engine)
- tracker1 7y agoIIRC, the mac version never got an IE6 release, it was 5.x...