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Re:When IE gave us beautiful, fast touch interactions, and n... by robin_reala on Friday March 13, 2015 @02:33PM (#9198957)
IE on Mac was a completely different beast to IE on Windows; it had separate rendering[1] and Javascript engines. There was an IE for Unix[2] which shared the Trident engine, but it never got significant traction.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasman_%28layout_engine%29 [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_for_UNIX

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