witzer Posted December 19, 2005 Share Posted December 19, 2005 well well well, no more IE for the mac. anybody here shedding tears? some comments: "Thanks Microsoft! The Internet Explorer for Mac will disappear in the near future. According to this page Microsoft will stop support for IE Mac with the end of this year. As of 31.01.2006 its distribution will be stopped completely. Before Apple's development of Safari the IE was the standard browser on each Mac and got so widely distributed. Since the IE never impressed with its standard-conformity it seems that web developers can leave some problems unsolved when IE Mac is no longer (spread) in the wild. Now only IE Win remains to be stripped...and the web would be somehow nicer." --On every brand new day "Today, I'm going to send an e-mail to the web developer team of the company that required me to use Internet Explorer to login into their site the importance of designing web with web standards. Hopefully they will listen so I can use Safari or Mozilla Firefox to login into the webpage." --William Computer Blog "The best feature of Mac IE 5 never shipped. We had to remove it from the product 2 days before releasing it. For many months there were two builds of MacIE 5, one with this feature and one without. That was also true for the new Mac IE "chrome" which was a guarded secret, till, well, Apple also happened to have the same idea and they called theirs Aqua. Those were strange times." --shahine.com/omar/ so what's next? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5966-ie-on-the-mac-bubbye/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victor Gil Posted December 19, 2005 Share Posted December 19, 2005 I can live without it, in fact i can live without IE at all, because when i was a Windows user i had DeepNet Explorer which has Browser, Newsreader and even a P2P program with Ad Blocker Anti-Phishing technology and a lot more, now I'm an OS x user so i have Firefox and Safari "ergo" I don't need it... :D Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5966-ie-on-the-mac-bubbye/#findComment-37574 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest terry Posted December 19, 2005 Share Posted December 19, 2005 I can live without it, in fact i can live without IE at all, because when i was a Windows user i had DeepNet Explorer which has Browser, Newsreader and even a P2P program with Ad Blocker Anti-Phishing technology and a lot more,No, if you are a DeepNet Explorer user you clearly cannot "live without IE at all" because DeepNet Explorer relies on the Internet Explorer's rendering engine. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5966-ie-on-the-mac-bubbye/#findComment-37602 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sigxcpu Posted December 19, 2005 Share Posted December 19, 2005 terry, let them be happy (this also includes greenbrowser, maxthon and other browsers' users) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5966-ie-on-the-mac-bubbye/#findComment-37613 Share on other sites More sharing options...
suleiman Posted December 20, 2005 Share Posted December 20, 2005 and avant! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5966-ie-on-the-mac-bubbye/#findComment-37682 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjr1028 Posted December 20, 2005 Share Posted December 20, 2005 Good riddance. IE Mac was horrible. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5966-ie-on-the-mac-bubbye/#findComment-37739 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hagar Posted December 20, 2005 Share Posted December 20, 2005 The only downside I can see is that it's no longer as easy to check web-pages for IE compatibility.. but if the browser disappears, why bother?.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5966-ie-on-the-mac-bubbye/#findComment-37758 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victor Gil Posted December 20, 2005 Share Posted December 20, 2005 No, if you are a DeepNet Explorer user you clearly cannot "live without IE at all" because DeepNet Explorer relies on the Internet Explorer's rendering engine. I know it relies on it, but what i mean is that I don't use the browser because of the security flaws inherit to the program, one thing is the engine and another are the security problems that comes with IE, because DeepNet has been fixed to avoid those flaws. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5966-ie-on-the-mac-bubbye/#findComment-37760 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest terry Posted December 20, 2005 Share Posted December 20, 2005 I don't use the browser because of the security flaws inherit to the program, one thing is the engine and another are the security problems that comes with IE, because DeepNet has been fixed to avoid those flaws. Huh? That is complete and utter nonsense. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5966-ie-on-the-mac-bubbye/#findComment-37767 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metrogirl Posted December 20, 2005 Share Posted December 20, 2005 Whether 'browser' A or B relies on IE for underlying service isn't all that relevant to this thread, so let's keep it friendly. The thing with IE on Windoze is that it's so much part of the whole Explorer interface that it isn't likely to disappear with any current version. Flaws and vulnerabilities aside, I don't really have any complaint with IE. I've never really understood what people have against it as a browser. I don't want all the clutter and features that some other programs offer. But I won't shed any tears over its demise on the Mac, Safari is fine for what I need and I wouldn't have installed IE there anyway. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5966-ie-on-the-mac-bubbye/#findComment-37775 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victor Gil Posted December 20, 2005 Share Posted December 20, 2005 Huh? That is complete and utter nonsense. I think i don't make it clear, i'll explain it again... The rendering engine on IE works fine, but there are some flaws on the main program that hasn't been fixed and brings a lot of security problem to the users. DeepNet (the main program) doesn't has those errors. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5966-ie-on-the-mac-bubbye/#findComment-37787 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest terry Posted December 20, 2005 Share Posted December 20, 2005 Victor Gil, in reaction to Metrogirl's calming remark ("let's keep it friendly"), I feel the urge to apologize to you for my rough sounding comment towards you above, it wasn't meant as an insult, but re-reading it I understand that it could be perceived as such, so I hope I didn't hurt you on a personal level with that. The rendering engine on IE works fine, but there are some flaws on the main program that hasn't been fixed and brings a lot of security problem to the users. DeepNet (the main program) doesn't has those errors. Well, the problem is that many if not most security vulnerabilities of the IE do in fact stem from its rendering engine. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5966-ie-on-the-mac-bubbye/#findComment-37810 Share on other sites More sharing options...
stryder Posted December 21, 2005 Share Posted December 21, 2005 well well well, no more IE for the mac. anybody here shedding tears? some comments: "Thanks Microsoft! The Internet Explorer for Mac will disappear in the near future. According to this page Microsoft will stop support for IE Mac with the end of this year. As of 31.01.2006 its distribution will be stopped completely. Before Apple's development of Safari the IE was the standard browser on each Mac and got so widely distributed. Since the IE never impressed with its standard-conformity it seems that web developers can leave some problems unsolved when IE Mac is no longer (spread) in the wild. Now only IE Win remains to be stripped...and the web would be somehow nicer." --On every brand new day "Today, I'm going to send an e-mail to the web developer team of the company that required me to use Internet Explorer to login into their site the importance of designing web with web standards. Hopefully they will listen so I can use Safari or Mozilla Firefox to login into the webpage." --William Computer Blog "The best feature of Mac IE 5 never shipped. We had to remove it from the product 2 days before releasing it. For many months there were two builds of MacIE 5, one with this feature and one without. That was also true for the new Mac IE "chrome" which was a guarded secret, till, well, Apple also happened to have the same idea and they called theirs Aqua. Those were strange times." --shahine.com/omar/ so what's next? Thanks for the reminder. I saw this a few days ago but forgot. Yeah, unfortunately, our office relies on IE 5 for OS 9 because we use OS 9 exclusively due to our outdated internally-developed software. Other browsers don't just cut it on OS 9. Soooo.... I've gone and downloaded the most up-to-date version for backup. I also use IE on OS X to check for IE compatibility in our web designs. Yes, surprisingly, Safari and FireFox render pages differently than IE does... :censored2: If your're a web designer on the Mac, I'd suggest you download and archive the latest versions... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5966-ie-on-the-mac-bubbye/#findComment-37914 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victor Gil Posted December 21, 2005 Share Posted December 21, 2005 Victor Gil,in reaction to Metrogirl's calming remark ("let's keep it friendly"), I feel the urge to apologize to you for my rough sounding comment towards you above, it wasn't meant as an insult, but re-reading it I understand that it could be perceived as such, so I hope I didn't hurt you on a personal level with that. Well, the problem is that many if not most security vulnerabilities of the IE do in fact stem from its rendering engine. Don't worry, i didn't take that as an insult, i though i didn't make myself clear or didn't say it the right way, I'm from Venezuela and sometimes my english can sound a little bad because of the lack of a good practice :censored2: Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5966-ie-on-the-mac-bubbye/#findComment-37934 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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