Slashdot has an article about Microsoft ending MacIE support.
Of course, since I used to work on MacIE’s twin sister, MacOE, I was looking for any good nuggets or posts from former MacBU folks. I figured Jorg would write something. He paints a rather interesting history of what happened to development of MacIE after 5 was released.
MacIE 5 was developed by an amazing team of folks. They paved the way for many features that were later hacked into the browser via add-ins (Forms Autofill which is now in the Google and MSN Toolbars, but not IE Proper) and some which have yet to make an appearance (web scrapbook). I had a lot of fun working with those folks as they worked tirelessly for many months (I remember when MacIE 5’s release slipped 6 months for a 1 year project). Tantec was relentless in pursuing full CSS and DOM compliance, and got further than anyone else at the time.
The best feature of Mac IE 5 never shipped. We had to remove it from the product 2 days before releasing it. For many months there were two builds of MacIE 5, one with this feature and one without. That was also true for the new Mac IE “chrome” which was a guarded secret, till, well, Apple also happened to have the same idea and they called their’s Aqua 
. Those were strange times.