[thelist] IE 6.0 beta in browser archive...

Daniel J. Cody djc at starkmedia.com
Mon Mar 26 13:51:23 CST 2001


aardvark wrote:
> 
> > From: "Daniel J. Cody" <djc at starkmedia.com>
> >
> > ya i understand that, but I thought that it was a similar deal to
> > NT/98 - that is, an app would run pretty much on one or ther other. so
> > the old build that you put up a month ago only runs on one of those
> > platforms? which one?
> 
> nope, that should run on both, and 98 (perhaps)... the reason is
> probably because it's more of the core features... as they build the
> UI and all the hooks into the OS (read: security holes), they tend to
> prefer to build those OS-specific to get greater control over what
> they can do... it also allows them to pass out iterative upgrades to
> specific OSes, among other things... this later build probably
> includes many of those hooks...

So, if I follow correctly, the final build of 6.0 will have a version
for 98/NT/Me, Win2k, and that XP(OS X lookalike)?

.djc.




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