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The last great version of IE that I personally used was IE 5.1 for Mac OS 9. It was - at the time - my preferred browser on the platform and really shone bright
by erickhill 7y ago
The last great version of IE that I personally used was IE 5.1 for Mac OS 9. It was - at the time - my preferred browser on the platform and really shone brightly.
As a web designer, IE - since 6 - has been the bane of my existence. It's not nearly as bad as it used to be, but it's there.
- iSnow 7y agoIE5/Mac was the best browser of the time, hands down. The only galling bug was that it stubbornly cached CSS (at least locally read CSS), so you had to always close and re-start it.
- bitwize 7y agoI remember Adobe (then Macromedia) Flash only worked well on IE5 for Mac OS 9. Every other OS/browser combination exhibited problems, especially slower framerates and audio/video desync issues. (When Linux got its own flash player, it was the worst of the lot.) Back then, Flash was a tool by and for designers, and it was only tested well on the platform that all designers used -- Mac. Mac OS X was still too new, a lot of designers didn't trust it yet, and it would take time to update the already existing 90s code base anyway.
- thomasz 7y agoIE6 was a very good browser when it came out in 2001. People forget how the landscape looked at that time: Netscape 6 was utter garbage, Firefox was still years away and Opera was a tiny, largely unknown niche browser that did cost money and was plagued by incompatible websites which were optimized for IE. It's just that MS ceased investing more than the absolute minimum into their browser after releasing IE 6 - it took until 2009 until a MS browser passed the Acid2 compatibility test.