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Nor IE on any os apart from windows

• soperj 11y ago
  Kind of wonder now why they don't cross platform IE?
  • yellowapple 11y ago
    They did, once upon a time; IE was available for Mac OS (pre-X, IIRC) and Unix back in the 90's. Bringing back cross-platform IE is probably a lost cause nowadays, but a cross-platform Spartan is possible.
    • baghira 11y ago
      IE was available for OSX all the way through 10.6 IIRC.
      • yellowapple 11y ago
        Was that native support, or was it based on OS 9 / Classic emulation? I know that the PowerPC versions of OS X (i.e. every OS X up to and including 10.5) supported running OS 9 software in a sort of emulation layer (though I don't remember if this was first-party or third-party; I do recall PowerPC Macs with OS X having a "Classic Mode" that booted into OS 9, however).
        • abrowne 11y ago
          Carbon, so not Classic, but based on the updated Classic Mac OS layer. It was PPC only, last updated in 2003.
    • erickhill 11y ago
      IE 5.5 on OS 9 was, at the time, the best browser available for the platform. Literally every fruity iMac had it and used it by default that I ever encountered. Including my own.
      • robmcm 11y ago
        It was the best browser on any platform at the time, and paved the way for strong web standards support. People often forget about this when bashing IE.