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Tasman was a layout engine developed by Microsoft for inclusion in the Macintosh version of Internet Explorer 5. Tasman was an attempt to improve support for web standards, as defined by the World Wide Web Consortium. At the time of its release, Tasman was seen as the layout engine with the best support for web standards such as HTML and CSS. Internet Explorer for Mac is no longer supported, but newer versions of Tasman are incorporated in some other Microsoft products.
Tantek Çelik led the team that developed the Tasman engine as the Software Development Lead. Tasman later became used as the layout engine for the MSN for Mac OS X and Office 2004 for Mac.
The first version of Tasman (referred to as „v0“) was released with Internet Explorer 5 Macintosh Edition on March 27, 2000. An upgraded version (version 0.1) followed on with the release of Internet Explorer 5.1 for Mac.
On May 15, 2003 Microsoft released the subscription-only MSN for Mac OS X browser, which used an upgraded version…