Yes, and what about all those IE only websites? I’m a big fan of getting rid of IE. Hopefully this will add to more incompatible people and developers will stop making IE only sites. Amen!
I’m not a Mac user, but I’m curious. How will Mac users preview their webpages for visitors who use IE5+ if they don’t develop it anymore? I’m not a big IE fan either, but isn’t it still important to have a site that visitors can navigate in IE considering it still has an enormous userbase?
enormous userbase?
Hmmm. http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
says for Oct.2005 = 3.2% Mac users.
Furthermore out of all Internet users in the same month 6.0% used IE 5 (Win and Mac together!)
So, that would be a 3.2% of the 6%. Even if the numbers are not totally accurate, you can get the idea about the proportions.
Using Mac IE was NEVER enough to preview Windows IE ‘results’. You always need a Windows box around if you really want to know what it looks like (well, or VirtualPC…).
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Mac IE uses a completely different rendering engine than PC IE, so it is practically useless when attempting to confirm website compatibility with the PC release of IE. As mentioned above, buy a cheap PC with Windows, or use http://browsershots.org .
@moshu: I was referring to the userbase of Internet Explorer for Windows users…
I didn’t know IE on Macs rendered pages differently than IE on Windows. That would seem to make it pretty useless when compared to other browsers… I can understand why some people are happy about this news 🙂 Thanks for the info!
