Hi,

I would be interested to know the Viewpoint position since Microsoft announce that they give up further development of Internet Explorer for Mac.

Do you plan to build a VMP version for Safari?

Do you give up Mac version as well?

Hi ibob... scary silence from VP on this one.

Microsoft has not only ended development of IE for mac, they have also changed what IE will be to Windows Systems. They claim it to bot be related to the anti-trust suit, but I think that is obviously untrue. IE is virtually dead as a Web Browser. Sure future versions of Windows will include web connectivity via explorer, but not as it is now. I am sure that Viewpoint is expremely interested in what the changes to Explorer will bring and have every confidence in the world that Viewpoint will use it as yet another excuse to postpone any Mac development. They'll never support Safari.

Viewpoint is aware of the transition from Internet Explorer to Safari on OS X as the default browser. We are currently planning on support for IE, although the next step is for Safari since this will be (is) the default. We've already done a lot of work to enable bi-directional scripting within IE, which does not support bidirectional scripting. We will do so with Safari, also. The problem is that an engineering solution is needed for both, and may be different.

Although we can not commit to a release date, we currently expect a release in September. This can slip due to numerous reasons, but you can be assured that the OS X plugin is in the works and in use in-house.

We have several projects in our Engineering department that require resources. Please be patient.