Microsoft Ends IE on the Mac 289
ron_ivi writes "Microsoft is
to cease IE support for Apple's Mac on Dec 31st of this year." And with this change, every mac on the internet will become even more secure than their Windows based counterparts.
CT Deja Vu 'eh? Sorry.
Back in 1999 it was a very good browser (Score:5, Informative)
Everyone please remember that IE/Mac is a very different browser than IE/Win, and back in 1999/2000 it was one of the most standards-compliant [tantek.com] browsers around.
According to The Web Standards Project [webstandards.org] it helped to start the "CSS layout revolution". [webstandards.org]
Same freaking article title, much worse snarking (Score:5, Informative)
Sheesh, the very latest article [slashdot.org] for Jebus' sake!
Re:from the-dupe-dept. (Score:5, Informative)
They don't think that. It's just that since it is a dupe, the actual content has already been extensively commented on elsewhere, leaving nothing but its status as a dupe to talk about. If you want to read about MS discontinuing IE for the Mac, go back to the original article on the subject. The de facto topic under discussion in duped articles always reverts to "dupes and the lazy, unprofessional /. editors who post them".
Re:Give 'em a break (Score:5, Informative)
This is not analogous to what Microsoft has done with Internet Explorer. Windows Explorer uses the MSHTML DLL to browse the file system, and Microsoft's HTML integration with the file browser runs so deeply that security flaws which would normally only be minor browser irritants become flaws which can execute arbitrary code in the file browser's memory space. Witness the security travesty that is ActiveX. A browser technology laden with security flaws suddenly becomes an operating system-level problem because of ActiveDesktop.
Apple does not use WebKit for the Finder, and the Finder is far less tied into the underlying OS than Windows Explorer is. The Finder has some special features over other applications, but at the end of the day, it's just another application which can be quit if you don't like it without really losing much. In Windows, it's a different story. For example, it's impossible to manipulate the Control Panel without Windows Explorer because that interface is guarded by private APIs. Mac OS X uses a separate application to change system settings.
Re:And Office? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:So much for Mac (Score:3, Informative)
I'm pissed off about it, and I have opened SAP OSS notes regarding it
I do wish there was a way to get firefox to be more 'crapatible' so I didn't have to use IE at all. It's annoying, since most of the admins use Unix here. We have to run an IE session just for this.
-WS
Re:Uninstalling Mac IE (Score:5, Informative)
I haven't and wouldn't want to try to remove safari to see if Apple allows it so easily.
I'll save you the trouble: yes. You'll still have the WebKit framework, since that's an integral part of several other bundled apps and a whole bunch of 3rd-party apps, but Safari itself is trivial to remove.
no big loss (Score:3, Informative)
It ain't like many Mac users were running IE. Heck there's plenty of browsers available for the Mac.
Safari
Firefox
Mozilla
Opera
iCab
Omniweb
to name a few.
I TOLD THEM IT WAS A DUPE!!!! (Score:5, Informative)