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		eru on Sept 29, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: IE9 team responds to Reddit questions: reddit tl;d... IE was available for Mac and Unix earlier.

pornel on Sept 29, 2010 | [–]

IE/Mac had completely different engine, and different UI.

Tasman supported — in it's own buggy way — properties like display:inline-table that Trident didn't support until IE8.

confuzatron on Sept 29, 2010 | [–]

Possibly made sense back in the day of MS-only web technologies. Now, not so much.

jacobolus on Sept 29, 2010 | [–]

Made sense back in the day when they were trying to muscle Netscape out of business.

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