Re: Other OSs?
Microsoft DID at one time did release their browser for Macintosh.
Internet Explorer for classic Mac around version 7 or 8.
It actually shipped on Apple's OS install CD's.
Fortunately (or unfortunately) it was not the same as IE on windows.. it was better.
It was more standards complient (which the windows version wasn't,) it also did not do ActiveX and used Apple's font technology to render web pages far more beautifully than other browsers and platforms.
It was small, crash proof, and fast.
It was in point of fact NOT Internet Explorer as we know it.
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As far as testing your HTML on your Mac in IE (or Sparta)..
If you want to test web pages in various browsers on your Mac.. well that's what virtuallization is for.
In fact, seeing how scary it is to use a Windows envirement, virtuallization is the only way to go and I'm shocked Microsoft doesn't use it themselves.
Maybe while they are busy releasing Windows 10, they could revive their Pallidum project, and restrict running older "classic" Windows applications in virtualized cages so you could keep running your old Windows applications.
You know.. "A better DOS than DOS and a better Windows than Windows".
OH WAIT A MINUTE!!!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
