Note Internet Explorer 5.2 for Mac OS X is not compatible with Mac OS 9.x or earlier. It also provides support for the new Quartz™ text smoothing feature provided in Mac OS X version 10.1.5 and later, so text on your screen is easier to read.
This latest version - version 5.2 - provides all the latest security and performance enhancements for Internet Explorer 5 for Mac OS X and a new home page - for Internet Explorer. With Mac-first innovations - such as Internet Scrapbook, which lets you collect pictures, receipts, and more - Internet Explorer makes the Web easy and fun. Whether youire searching for information, tracking online auctions, or browsing Web pages, Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.2 for Mac OS X makes it easy to make the most of the Web. It also includes the most recent security patches. Quartz text smoothing makes Web pages look substantially better, and it was previously available only to Cocoa apps such as OmniWeb from The OmniGroup.
The new version, 5.2, included support for Quartz text smoothing, something that Apple made possible for Carbon apps in Mac OS X 10.1.5. Icrosoft has at long last released an upgraded version of Internet Explorer for Mac OS X.