After the news that Microsoft will not be updating standalone IE, comes another addition to the MS &“We 0wnz j00, internet” crowd. MS have announced that they will not be producing another version of IE for Mac. Whilst IE is more like a stasis session than a death, the fate of IE/Mac seems to be just that.
Roz Ho, the general manager of Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit, has confirmed that no future versions of Internet Explorer will be released for the Mac.
Just after writing out that last post, I checked out Tantek’s site. Finding out about the death of one of your creations, especially one as good as the IE5/Mac Tasman rendering engine, from friends and the press, rather than the employers who you created it for (and still work for) sucks big time. Big companies happen, I guess.
I have come to the conclusion that menus are complicated. A menu will typically have around fifty items in it, along with some submenus. Each of these has their own objects and all have to be dynamically created and freed as needed. Rather a lot of scope for memory leaks, which can’t be tolerated in a menu system, imo.
New version of dWall! This is version 1.1 and comes with PNG image support. Also fixed is a bug with applying wallpapers from a context menu. Pop over to the dwall page to grab it.