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No. It's because MSIE for Windows wouldn't run on MacOS and they couldn't use Wine. (MSFT would never do that.)
by brokenparser 13y ago
No. It's because MSIE for Windows wouldn't run on MacOS and they couldn't use Wine. (MSFT would never do that.)
- jonny_eh 13y agoWine wouldn't have worked either since OSX was PowerPC based at the time.
- brokenparser 13y agoThat and the fact that wine only runs on *nix, so it'd require another compatibility layer to provide POSIX and BSD functionality under classic MacOS. OSX didn't even exist at the time IE for Mac was written. They'd also have to come up with a visual theme layer so they could at least pretend it's a Mac program, long before they introduced one in Windows. All of that still wouldn't get them menu bar support, though. In hindsight, I didn't think it through at all when I mentioned wine. They do have MS-Office ports for Mac, so that product was probably written with much better separation of concerns.
- duaneb 13y agoI guess there's no reason for Microsoft to decouple their browser from their OS, I guess....