IE for Mac is also over
IE 5/Mac is the end of the road, says Microsoft. Sort of obvious with the whole Safari thing and all. Since IE/PC’s life was quietly ended some time ago, this means IE now abandonware. IE is like the Mac OS 9 of browsers, except there’s no OS X to upgrade to. Ever. (Hi Pere!)
Zeldman originally broke the news, then posted a few days later saying maybe it’s not so bad, IE6 is kind of OK, but then realized that Longhorn won’t be out for at least two years and concluded we’re hosed:
In other words, for the next two years, 85% of the web using population will have buggy support for CSS float, no support at all for adjacent sibling selectors, and no hope of PNG transparency unless developers are willing to write proprietary, IE-only code or deploy sophisticated JavaScript workarounds to make IE/Win do what other modern browsers do natively. Not to mention IE/Win’s known caching problems with background images and its insistence on displaying the a:active state even when a link is no longer active. Can anyone tell us how two more years of flawed standards support is supposed to be a good thing?
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As if we needed any more proof that Microsoft just really really hates this whole \”Intarweb\” thing.