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Mac browsers. Is IE5.x for Mac Officially Dead?

I don't use a mac, so my exposure is minimal, but can I assume IE on Mac is dead?

I know Microsoft is not developing it further and that Firefox, Safari (Opera and Camino) work on Mac (and from my statistics, they are most often used in that order) ...

So the question is: is he dead? and if so, when did he die?

I can still see CSS templates with IE Mac hacks in place ... but I think it's time to take the dead weight off. I'm right?

PS For those who host a large commercial site, I will be interested in% of clients using Mac IE. (Customers are users who actually buy something, not just web developers pinging amazon.com to see what it looks like)

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He is dead. I just stopped at this monthly report and found 9 hits out of 3.5 million (about 0.0000257%).



If you want a time of death, I would say that it was in 2006 when Microsoft published a phrase urging users to "migrate" to newer web browser technologies like Apple Safari. "

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Yes. Praise the lord.



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Please refer to this document.

http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifesupsps/

Highest Mac IE version posted was 5.2.3.

And this is for more:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_5#Apple_Macintosh

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Colby Africa

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I would consider IE on Mac as dead. As a longtime Mac user, I think no one uses this browser often.

According to these statistics http://www.upsdell.com/BrowserNews/stat.htm the usage rate is less than 0.3%.

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I used to work on a large commercial site a little over a year ago and IE5.5 on a Mac was below 0.5% - and this was in an organization where many of the internal users were using this browser (the main reason we had to support it)

I would say that if the demographic targeting you are targeting is especially likely to use it, I really wouldn't bother.

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I see 0.22% usage of IE on mac. So I would consider it dead too. I also only see 0.23% from Opera.

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I really liked Mac IE that day, and still consider it to be one of the best surfing browsers for old school kids and that it contains features not yet replicated elsewhere.

However, by the time Safari 2 came out, the Mac IE was too long in the tooth, never updated, and didn't match Aqua's slowly evolving look. The last few loyal users have given up on this.

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He died during the time xs x came out. I have not seen it used in years and I would say that its safe to assume that it is no longer in use. I don't think it is ported as a native os x app, and newer os x versions cant run non native apps.

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