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Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.2 for Mac OS X Now Available | |
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| Time: 10:45 EST/15:45 GMT | News Source: Microsoft Press Release | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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Microsoft Corp today announced the availability of Microsoft® Internet Explorer 5.2 for Mac OS X, the latest update to the most popular browser available for the Macintosh operating system. The update includes a number of enhancements that make the browsing experience better for customers using Mac OS X. For example, using Quartz text smoothing, Internet Explorer 5.2 now provides smooth display of text, making Web sites easier to read. The free* download is available at http://www.microsoft.com/mac/. <%=GetPoll(29)%> | ||
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| #1 By 3465 (206.20.132.147) at 6/17/2002 11:23:54 AM |
| Yea, baby! |
| #2 By 2960 (156.80.64.164) at 6/17/2002 1:05:53 PM |
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My hunch is that it's going to show up on Auto Update, like the previous mini-update did.
TL |
| #3 By 3339 (65.198.47.10) at 6/17/2002 2:36:23 PM |
| Uh, anon, we knew this was coming... We expected it a week or two ago. In fact, it was alleged to have held up 10.1.5 for a little while. This doesn't prove or disprove anything. The fact remains it's still kludgier than other Mac browsers, if more stable. I would say it's the slowest html renderer available for OS X. |
| #4 By 2960 (156.80.64.164) at 6/17/2002 2:53:23 PM |
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The Link is working now...
IU |
| #5 By 3339 (65.198.47.10) at 6/17/2002 6:30:30 PM |
| For OS X, Jagged? Sure, I would recommend Chimera before I recommend IE. To have OmniWeb or Chimera or Opera die on you every once in a while is nothing, it takes seconds to run it again... but IE on the other hand... just drains the hell out of OS X and renders slowly. I get more beach balls with IE than any other app, including OS X and apps through Classic. And it still has some pretty severe and obvious bugs. |
| #6 By 3339 (67.116.255.109) at 6/18/2002 3:15:23 AM |
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anon! I mean, bryank1! yeah, you, no. 11! Why are you willing to have an id over at neowin but not here at the venerable AW?
Anyway, yes, it's still a dog compared to Chimera. I'm actually finding it buggier in some respects than before. Lot's of screen wiping and blanking, hangs on rendering certain portions of pages... They shifted font sizing again it seems to me too. Even bigger now... uhh And resetting my home page? (Guess which site?) Tsk, tsk... I love how there's 2 home page options: "none" and "use default" (Guess what the default is?). No, "use current"? Jeez. MSN.COM (Well, I'll be) is a "TOOL"? Yeah, righ! If Chimera didn't perform better than IE and offer more compelling features, there are still plenty of reasons to chose it over IE. |
| #7 By 3339 (67.116.255.109) at 6/18/2002 11:05:23 AM |
| athlon, you get that MS resets the homepage to MSN.com, right? They aren't the only ones to do this, but Netscape and Opera both will maintain your current home page if its an upgrade at least. But the rest: setting your home page: usually the browsers have a "Use Current Page" setting so that the page you have currently browsed to can be set as your home. IE removes this, and gives you the option of "Leave the address bar blank as a home page" (who the hell would use that?) and "Default--i.e. MSN.com." Freakin ridiculous! Yes, I can type in whatever I want and do and will, but the amount of control they are trying to leverage in the most basic and simple of functionality is sickening. |
| #8 By 3339 (65.198.47.10) at 6/18/2002 12:48:08 PM |
| Anon, FWIW? Not Much, hitting delet is just as easy as hitting a button, and I really don't care for IE config options on servers... I know it's nice to have sometimes, but do you even need IE on most servers? FWIW, I find it a useful technique to frequently reset my home page to pages I am working on or need to view frequently over a certain time period. To remove this functionality is either fear from MS that someone may set a homepage to something other than MSN or an attempt to control how I work. Either motivation is not something I look for in software design, I look for functionality designed to serve ME. |
| #9 By 2960 (156.80.64.164) at 6/18/2002 1:09:44 PM |
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#7,
I don't necessarilly agree or disagree. However, for everyone's good in the long run, I do belive that the _first_ thing that has to happen is that Apple needs to dump Motorola and move to AMD processors. Motorola is not doing it's job, and it is, IMHO, the SOLE problem that is holding back Apple from truly competing. The early versions of MacOS X, called code-named Rhapsody, were available in x86 PC and PowerPC Mac versions, so it would not be, I don't think, a big deal to convert the OS itself. In fact, I'm convinced that MacOS X DOES exist in a x86 version in a deep, dark celler in Apple somewhere, but that's X-Files talk for now :) Of course, the real trick would be driver and application's. They may be able to write an emulation layer to handle the app issue at first (they've done it successfully before, in the switch from 68x to PPC models), but the drivers thing would be the biggest challange. TL |
| #10 By 2960 (156.80.64.164) at 6/18/2002 1:13:33 PM |
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#13,
What on EARTH are you talking about. "MacOS X is Linux based" ? You're reading the wrong online magazines... MacOS X is UNIX based, runs on the MACH Kernal and BSD 4.(3, I believe). Linux is not in anyway, shape or form part of MacOS X. Linux is also UNIX based. Maybe that's where your confusion comes from. TL |
| #11 By 3339 (65.198.47.10) at 6/18/2002 6:53:22 PM |
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anon, I get the reasoning, I just said I don't care because the functionality is there, and that even if it wasn't, there is no increase of key clicks to get the result. What I care about is MS removing the useful functionality that has always been there and is available in the windows version.
Providing a reason for having a set to blank button doesn't provide me with the warm succor for MS it does for you--I want to hear an explanation about why removing the set current page is technological necessary or an improvement. |
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