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I believe IE was bundled starting with OS 8 or 9. (definitely 9, but might have started with 8) The document explains a lot of the 'gushing' Steve Jobs was doing about IE around that time. Sounds like there was at least a handshake agreement to push IE hard on Apple's side which they definitely did. (i.e. this goes beyond the previously published agreements re: bundling it etc as Steve in particular was really doing a hard sell on IE to Mac users at the time at a couple of events)

The document is also interesting as it helps explain why ClarisWorks died on the vine the way it did. I remember filing a bug report on a years old problem around that time for a family member which Apple never did fix, or anything else, in ClarisWorks until they eventually abandoned it completely years later. Too bad, it was a nice user-friendly, entry-level productivity suite.

It's hard to search for this kind of thing to back me up, but I vaguely remember IE 5 on Mac not only being better than Netscape, but also being the best implementation of IE across all platforms. It had a ton of unique features and its rendering engine was superior to the Trident engine used by IE on Windows.

Tasman (layout engine) - Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasman_(layout_engine)

I recall this too (with equal vagueness). I remember even at the time talking about IE for Mac being a great browser. Basically a completely different product than its Windows counterpart.

It was a great browser, which even us hardcore Macians had to admit. It was so much better than the Windows IE, and MS took great care to make it feel Mac-like. So apart from the strange in the top right corner, it was a very good Mac app.

It was way ahead of IE for Windows.

http://tantek.com/log/2004/06.html

It still regularly crashed my OS 9 Mac.

But then, what didn't? ;-)

If I recall correctly, it had the best CSS support at the time.

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