The Death of Mac IE

As soon as I saw this posting on The Web Standard’s Project web site,I forgot what it was I went there for.

I know plenty of people who will be glad to hear Microsoft’s announcement that Internet Explorer for Macintosh is dead! Microsoft will end security and performance updates for IE/Mac effective December 31^st and they even recommend Safari as a replacement. Happy New Year!

While IE/Mac was actually one of the first browsers to at least partially support standards,it had become the bane of my existance in my old position. Perhaps it was more the expectation by the powers that be that every layout look exactly the same in all browsers than IE’s CSS issues but I really have come to *hate* IE/Mac.

Naturally people will still have to support IE/Mac depending on their audience,especially since it will still be available for download at MS’s site until the end of January 2006 but the sooner it disappears,the happier I’ll be.

IE is dead. Long live Firefox.

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