zeldman

writes a pretty good
eulogy
for ie5/mac

and points to the potential for trouble:

“We know that, after spending billions of dollars to
defeat all competitors and to absolutely, positively
own

the desktop browsing space, Microsoft as a corporation is no longer
interested in web browsers. We know that, on the Windows side, it
will eventually release something that accesses web content, but
that “something” will be part of an operating system – and that
operating system won’t be available until 2005, and probably won’t
be widely used before 2007. Whether the part that formats web pages
will be more or less compliant with W3C recommendations than what
we have now, we don’t know. Neither do we know whether the unnamed
thing that handles web browsing will support CSS3 and other
specifications that will emerge during the long years ahead in
which Microsoft offers no new browser.”