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Re:The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview by tracker1 on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @06:39PM (#22060093)
IE6 was closed source and only ran on Windows... Chromium/Blink run cross platform, open source and already 2 forks in. There's some stark contrast, even if it's more of a mono-culture, it's nothing like the IE6 days, even if google does have more power/control than other stakeholders.
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Re:The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview by tomc1985 on Thursday January 16, 2020 @01:07AM (#22062066)
IE had a mac version, but it died due to lack of interest/support
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Re:The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview by kalleboo on Thursday January 16, 2020 @03:16AM (#22062569)
The Mac version had a completely different, incompatible, renderer (which was actually better than the Windows one from a standards perspective) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasman_(layout_engine)
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Re:The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview by tracker1 on Thursday January 16, 2020 @04:54PM (#22069422)
IIRC, the mac version never got an IE6 release, it was 5.x...
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