It's Official - Mac IE is dead
Last year Microsoft announced that they would no longer be supporting their version of Internet Explorer for Macintosh. Yesterday they further followed through on that promise and have pulled it from the Mactopia site so that users can no longer download it. Believe it or not, Microsoft actually recommends Mac users migrate to Safari.
See the Mactopia Internet Explorer page for Microsoft's official announcement.
What does this mean for us as web developers? Mac IE's somewhat abysmal support for web standards has made it the bane of our existence for the last couple of years. The amount of users with this browser has always been pretty low and steadily dwindling but with this development, it's pretty much been relegated to the browser graveyard with the likes of Netscape 4.
It's time we embrace the future, coding to support standards-complaint browsers, instead of wasting countless hours hacking sites to work with archaic browsers such as this. So long Mac IE. It's been fun... well... not really.
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