Tasman (layout engine)
Tasman is the name of an HTML rendering engine from Microsoft and was first introduced with the Macintosh version of Internet Explorer 5. Tasman should support created by the World Wide Web Consortium web standards better than the Trident engine used previously. At the time of publication was Tasman as the engine with the best support for web standards such as HTML and CSS. The development of Internet Explorer for Mac has now been set, but newer versions of the Tasman engine are still used in several Microsoft products, including, inter alia in Microsoft Office 2004/2008 or MSN for Mac OS X.
The Tasman engine was developed under the direction of Tantek Çelik.
Versions
The first version of the Tasman engine ( as " v0 ") was published on 27 March 2000 with Internet Explorer 5 Macintosh Edition. With the release of Internet Explorer 5.1 for Mac then followed version 0.1 of the engine.
On May 15, 2003, Microsoft introduced the subscription - duty Browser MSN for Mac OS X, which came up with the Tasman version 0.9. In a message to the newsgroup Mac Internet Explorer Talk, the then manager of the Internet Explorer for Mac Jimmy Grewal listed some improvements:
- Full Unicode support.
- Improved support for CSS ( CSS3 selectors, CSS TV PRofile and @ media ).
- Improved support for the DOM.
- XHTML 1.0 and 1.1 support (although this was not yet activated in MSN for Mac OS X).
- Improved support for various Mac OS X features, including: Core Graphics, ATSUI and CFSocket networking.
On 11 May 2004, Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac was released, which used a version of Entourage Tasman engine in his e -mail software.
The input "about: tasman " in the Mac version of Internet Explorer will display a list of employees who had share in the support of Acid1 tests.