Microsoft drops Explorer for Mac

Microsoft have announced that they will no longer develop new versions of their web browser Internet Explorer, for the Apple Mac. In some respects this is a pity as IE is a good browser on the Mac platform - however Apples own Safari browser - still in beta - is already a far better browser and is more standards compliant that IE and what we do need is a set of browsers across all platforms that follow the standards to the letter - not some bizarre interpretation of them.

On the Mac we still have the choice of running Netscape, iCab, Safari, Mozilla and of course the mighty Opera but the reality for PC users is that IE will become even more integrated with the operating system and this will mean more dominance for IE which then causes problems such as helping to spread virus's quickly due to commonly found code and common system builds.

I like to see a large diverse range of browsers but as a site designer I also want to see them all following the same CSS standards so that I don't have to fix browser bugs with page code.

Posted by Simon at June 18, 2003 11:56 AM

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