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0 pointstheatrus212y ago0 comments

It also was the most standards compliant and performant IE of its time, being a totally different code base.

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duaneb12y ago

Possibly because they had to please Apple AND Microsoft?

No. It's because MSIE for Windows wouldn't run on MacOS and they couldn't use Wine. (MSFT would never do that.)

Wine wouldn't have worked either since OSX was PowerPC based at the time.

duaneb12y ago

I guess there's no reason for Microsoft to decouple their browser from their OS, I guess....

yuhong12y ago

Eg. transparent PNGs.

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0 pointstheatrus212y ago0 comments

It also was the most standards compliant and performant IE of its time, being a totally different code base.

duaneb12y ago

Possibly because they had to please Apple AND Microsoft?

No. It's because MSIE for Windows wouldn't run on MacOS and they couldn't use Wine. (MSFT would never do that.)

Wine wouldn't have worked either since OSX was PowerPC based at the time.

duaneb12y ago

I guess there's no reason for Microsoft to decouple their browser from their OS, I guess....

yuhong12y ago

Eg. transparent PNGs.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse