how old is Explorer5 for the mac

whiteshadow

doing a site for a client who uses IE 5 for the mac,
some of the css stuff im creating looks terrible in the browser.
spaces everywhere etc...

how old is this browser?
should i recommend an upgrade?

Yoda

Explorer 5.2.3 is the most recent version to my knowledge. The "About Internet Explorer" dialogue says ©1995-2001 Microsoft Corporation. Microsoft no longer develops Explorer for the Apple platform. I believe Apple isn't shipping Explorer any more, or will soon cease to do so.

Have your client switch to Safari.

SouperComputer

firefox is always worth a try, a princely 4mb download too.

deevey

Think IE 5 is about 3 1/2 - 4 years at this stage..I was using it doing a 5.1 doing a course going back about 3 years ago... think you can safely reccommend an upgrade to firefox or safari (if he has osx).

uberwolf

on the topic of browsers has anyone found firefox to be remarkabely unstable in OS X , I've had problems on more than one machine, with X .2 & .3, "the application Firefox has quit unexpectedly" for no disernable reason, with any combination or no other application running.

Despite that I'd still say that Explorer for the Mac is an ancient technology and upgrading - especially as firefox is free - is the best course of action.

Maoltuile

uberwolf wrote:

on the topic of browsers has anyone found firefox to be remarkabely unstable in OS X , I've had problems on more than one machine, with X .2 & .3, "the application Firefox has quit unexpectedly" for no disernable reason, with any combination or no other application running.

Despite that I'd still say that Explorer for the Mac is an ancient technology and upgrading - especially as firefox is free - is the best course of action.

Are you sure that you didn't mean *Opera* (on *any* platform ;-)

Gyck

Anyone have any recommendations for os 9.x compatible browsers (aside from IE 5)?

deevey

Think you already have all the suggestions you need above ...

Mozilla, Mozilla firefox, Opera, or even Netscape (the one not mentioned)

personally ... I feel mozilla is the only way to go..I havent found any site that didnt look the same in it as in IE6 (some even better if the coding was crap on the page).

Dunno if the latest netscape works in 9.x been ages since i touched it, and always felt netscape was sluggish.

Javascript / java and CSS all seem to work better in mozilla and opera, although javascript popupmenus didnt work too well on some sites in opera 6 for 9.x...


Steve c

Gyck

I didn't think Opera was OS9 compatible but yes it is!
I'll be giving that a crack, thanks.