When IE5 for Mac was released 20 years ago, it was the best web browser, period. But it was the last version Microsoft made for Mac, IE6 was Windows-only. While

When IE5 for Mac was released 20 years ago, it was the best web browser, period. But it was the last version Microsoft made for Mac, IE6 was Windows-only. While IE6 might have been better overall than IE5 on either platform, IE stagnated, Apple made their own browser to supplant IE5, and Mozilla created Firefox to replace Netscape (and there was Opera which never had much market share but was still influential on other browsers).