What is "tasman"

Tasman usually refers to Abel Tasman (1603-1659), a Dutch explorer.

Tasman may also refer to:

• Tasman Region, a region and a district of New Zealand
• Mount Tasman, a mountain in New Zealand
• Tasman (New Zealand electorate), a former New Zealand Parliamentary electorate
• Tasman, Iran, a village in South Khorasan Province, Iran
• Tasman (layout engine), a layout engine developed by Microsoft for Internet Explorer
• Tasman Software, former producers of the Tasword word processor
• Tasman (VTA), a light rail station on Tasman Drive, San Jose, California
• 6594 Tasman, a main-belt asteroid

Or to other people named Tasman:

• Marc Tasman (b. 1971), American multimedia artist
• Raymond Tasman Donoghue (1920-1960), Australian tram driver
• Lindsay Tasman Ride (1898-1977), Australian physiologist, soldier and Vice Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong

As a given name:

• Tasman Forth (1885-1964), an Australian Odinist
• Tasman Higgins (1888-1953), an Australian cinematographer
• Tasman Joseph McKee (1911-1973), a New Zealand chemist and geologist

Compound names include:

• Tasman Accord
• Tasman Bay, New Zealand
• Tasman booby
• Tasman Bridge, Hobart, Tasmania
• Tasman Cargo Airlines
• Tasman Council, local government area of Tasmania
• Tasman flax-lily
• Tasman Fracture, an ocean trench SW of Tasmania
• Tasman Glacier, New Zealand
• Tasman Highway, Tasmania
• Tasman Island, Tasmania
• Tasman Lake, New Zealand
• Tasman Mill
• Tasman National Park, Tasmania
• Tasman Outflow, ocean current
• Tasman parakeet (disambiguation)
• Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania
• Tasman Rip, a marine channel in the South Shetland Islands
• Tasman River, New Zealand
• Tasman Rugby Union
• Tasman Sea, between Australia and New Zealand
• Tasman Series, a motor racing series between Australia and New Zealand
• Tasman starling
• Tasman whale

Tasman is a discontinued 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.

Tasman is a light rail station operated by the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority. It is located in San Jose, California at First Street and Tasman Drive. Tasman is served by both the Mountain View–Winchester and Alum Rock–Santa Teresa lines, and has served as the northern primary transfer point between the two lines since August 2005, when the line from Mountain View was reconfigured to serve downtown San Jose and no longer serve Baypointe station in preparation for the opening of the Vasona light rail extension project.

Tasman is a former New Zealand parliamentary electorate, from 1972 to 1996.