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[Niall Kavanagh]

On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Anthony J. Gabrielson wrote:

> I gave the Solaris version of IE a shot - it ran pretty well.  It doesn't
> take up to much real estate and it worked much smoother than the windows
> version.  I hate to say it, but I kind of liked it....
> 

Really? I heard it was a bloated piece of ... well, you know. I'll have to
check it out. Where can one grab it?

For those interested, the Mac version of IE is a completely different
beast than any other, with a seperate codebase. The layout engine is/was
the most compliant out there (mozilla may have surpassed it by now).

The solaris version is a direct port of the windows version using
Mainsoft's tools.

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