: But I guess most of us (albeit not as many as a few years ago) use Macs:
: Safari has beaten Exploder! For the first time in the history of mankind
: (I suppose), Microsoft are losing to another company. They have stopped
: developing Exploder for Mac OS X since Safari has become so popular.
: Hooray! ...or?
since its release safari has constantly eaten away at IE (and to some degree Camino/Chimera). people are already seeing safari as the default mac browser and thus microsofts killing of IE is just a natural step for them -- they're not going to spend their time and money on a browser that's only going to be used by a few percent.
to me it's great news, hopefully it will reduce the number of "your browser is too old - download IE now" kind of sites. but, it might just as well reduce the number of sites available to us mac users. today, if a site is IE-only i just go somewhere else, but i know a lot of people who are dependant on these sites. sure, you can keep you old copy of IE, but it will soon start lagging behind the windows version who's expecting a major update soon.
and testing your homepages with the mac version of IE never told you much -- it might still look like shit in the windows version. the mac version is/was a decent browser (altho quite buggy) but the windows version sucked bigtime.
