Tasman is the name of the layout engine introduced with version 5 of Internet Explorer for Mac. 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 current Microsoft products. A layout engine, or rendering engine, is a software that takes web content (such as HTML, XML, image files, etc) and formatting information (such as CSS, XSL, etc) and displays the formatted content on the screen. ... Internet Explorer for Mac, a. ... The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international consortium where member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public, work together to develop standards for the World Wide Web. ...

Tantek Çelik led the team that developed the Tasman engine as the Software Development Lead. Tantek Çelik is Chief Technologist at Technorati. ...

Tasman later became used as the layout engine for the Windows version of MSN, while Internet Explorer continued using Trident. There were rumors that Internet Explorer 7 would use the Tasman layout engine, but IE7 will be released using the Trident engine. Internet Explorer, abbreviated IE or MSIE, is a proprietary graphical web browser made by Microsoft and included as part of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems. ... Trident (also known as MSHTML) is the name of the layout engine for the Microsoft Windows version of Internet Explorer. ... Internet Explorer, abbreviated IE or MSIE, is a proprietary web browser made by Microsoft and currently available as part of Microsoft Windows. ...

Version history

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. March 27 is the 86th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (87th in Leap years). ... This article is about the year 2000. ...

On May 15, 2003 Microsoft released the subscription-only MSN for Mac OS X browser, which used an upgraded version of Tasman (version 0.9) as its layout engine. In a posting to the Mac Internet Explorer Talk list, Internet Explorer for Mac Program Manager Jimmy Grewal listed a number of improvements: May 15 is the 135th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (136th in leap years). ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... MSN for Mac OS X was discontinued on March 2005, But later revived to 5. ...

• Full Unicode support.
• Improved CSS support, with CSS 3 Selectors, CSS TV Profile and @media
• Improved DOM support with DOM 1 Core and DOM 2 Core, Style, and Events. Also improved compatibility with Windows IE DOM.
• XHTML 1.0 and 1.1 support, although it is not activated in MSN for Mac OS X.
• Better support for Mac OS X features such as CoreGraphics, ATSUI and CFSocket networking.

For a while Tasman was improved as part of a number of TV set-top box projects at Microsoft reaching version 1.0. However none of these projects resulted in a shipping product. Due to technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ... In computing, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in a markup language. ... Document Object Model (DOM) is a description of how an HTML or XML document is represented in an object-oriented fashion. ... The Extensible HyperText Markup Language, or XHTML, is a markup language that has the same expressive possibilities as HTML, but a stricter syntax. ... Quartz is the marketing name of the proprietary graphics layer that sits on top of the open source Darwin core of Mac OS X. Quartz is part of the Core Graphics framework. ... The Apple Type Services for Unicode Imaging (ATSUI) is the Mac OS set of services for rendering Unicode-encoded text. ... Core Foundation (also called CF) is a Mac OS X framework and API. CF provides: Primitive types for data (raw bytes, Unicode strings, numbers, calendar dates, UUIDs) and collections (arrays, sets, dictionaries) Application preferences management (CFPropertyList, Preferences Utilities) XML parsing Bundle handling File system I/O (CFReadStream, CFWriteStream, CFURL) Network...

On May 11, 2004 Microsoft started shipping Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac which incorporates a version of the Tasman layout engine in its email client Entourage. May 11 is the 131st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (132nd in leap years). ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Microsoft Office is a suite of productivity programs created by Microsoft and developed for Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh operating systems. ... Microsoft Entourage is an email client and personal information manager developed by Microsoft for Mac OS. It is fairly similar to Outlook which Microsoft produce for their Windows platform. ...

See also

• List of layout engines
• Comparison of layout engines

The following is a list of layout engines. ... The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of layout engines. ...

External links

• Microsoft Unveils Faster, Simpler and More Reliable Internet Explorer 5 Macintosh Edition
• Web Standards Project praises Microsoft decision to focus on standards in Mac Internet Explorer 5.0