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MSIE 5.2 for Mac OS X Released

Posted by pudge on from the goes-down-faster-and-smoother-with-less-crashy-aftertaste dept.

Jarrett writes "MSIE 5.2 now supports Quartz text smoothing and a slew of other reliability/security [hehe] improvements on Mac OS X. Its performance is noticably better, it seems to end the spinning beach ball problems, and is stable. It's available on Microsoft's Mactopia site" Posted With Mozilla(tm) on Mac OS X.

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  1. IE and Microsoft bugs persist by Slur · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Looks like the Javascript Prompt bug persists. If you're using any version of IE5 for MacOSX put this in the address-line and see the bug of which I speak:

    javascript:x=prompt("This Text Should Appear")

    Explorer is getting about one bullet-item per-month upgrade, just to keep us hoping. Meanwhile several browsers are poised to overtake Explorer in standards-compliance and standards-implementation, and have already overtaken Explorer in features we like, like disabling ad banners and popups.

    The fact that IE 5.2 sets the Home Page to MSN is a sure sign that MicroSoft can't let go of its old nasty little indulgences. As if switching the whole west coast to MSN didn't get our attention.

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  2. IE/Mac IE/Win by Fweeky · · Score: 4, Insightful

    For some reason, Microsoft's IE/Mac and IE/Win teams are completely different; while IE5/Mac was hailed as having one of the best CSS1 implimentations, IE5/Win was still struggling with the box model (and happily making all your boxes too big, because the IE/Win team can't read, obviously).

    So don't go lumping IE/Mac in with IE/Win - they're completely different browsers which happen to share the same name.

    A List Apart: Why IE/Mac Matters

  3. Re:Different Needs Met w/Different Browsers by Laplace · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Omni Web needs tabbed browsing. Only then will it become The One, True Browser for OS X.

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