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I’m pretty sure your history is off here. There was a 5 year agreement around 1998 to keep Office available for the Mac, and to make IE the default (but not onl

by jen20 2y ago

I’m pretty sure your history is off here. There was a 5 year agreement around 1998 to keep Office available for the Mac, and to make IE the default (but not only bundled) browser available. Safari was shipped almost exactly at the end of that agreement, and the announcement as to IE for Mac being discontinued was 6 months later.

Klonoar 2y ago
A fun bit of trivia: that IE was a different rendering engine (Tasman, not Trident which was used on Windows).
- jen20 2y ago
  Indeed - it was also a lot more standards-compliant than Trident, though not without it's own share of fuckery as befitted the age.