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[thefunkymunky]

IE is back on the Mac – and with ie4mac it's better than ever​

Microsoft stopped development in 2003
Ever since Microsoft stopped developing the Internet Explorer™ for the Mac in 2003, web designers have been faced with a dilemma: While many designers choose to use Apples' Mac computers, most of their customers are still using Windows. A large fraction of them uses the Internet Explorer. They are ready to pay for website designs that render correctly in this browser, so web designers need a way to verify their designs in IE.<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Calibri, 'Myriad Pro', Myriad, 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; ">But many web designers don't want to spend their valuable time to set up and maintain Windows on their Macs. Furthermore, they don't want to pay 200 $ or more on licenses for Windows and Parallels Desktop™ just to have the Internet Explorer on their Mac.

Today, ie4mac brings the Internet Explorer to your Mac
ie4mac brings the Internet Explorer back to the Mac. In fact, from a web designers perspective, it's better than it ever was. This is because back in 2003, Microsofts own Internet Explorer for the Mac used a different rendering engine (Tasman) than its Windows counterpart that came with the Trident rendering engine. This way web designers could get a first impression of what a page would look like in the Internet Explorer, but could not really make sure that their new webpage would work correctly in the Windows version of Internet Explorer. This is where ie4mac changes things for the better:

ie4mac Features
At ie4mac you can use the exact same Internet Explorer that your customers are using on Windows. In fact your are using the original, unmodified Windows Internet Explorer, right on your Mac. ie4mac makes this possible by running a cluster of Windows Terminal Servers and delivering the Internet Explorer to your Mac using a protocol called RDP. This way we can provide you with four different versions of IE, running side by side, namely Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8 and even 9 (the latest beta release by Microsoft). Furthermore, developer tools are included.

Free access
Request free access today, get ie4mac for your Mac. Everybody who takes part in the private beta test can use the system for free during the whole testing period.

Source: ie4mac.com

 

[Hellhammer]

Wow! I didn't expect this to happen! Thanks for posting, I already signed in

 

[jackerin]

I thought there already was a project for running IE on OS X with that name, but it turned out it was ie4osx.

ies4osx seems to be quite dated, but it's arguably more of an application runnable on OS X than ie4mac, since that isn't really running on your Mac...

ie4mac makes this possible by running a cluster of Windows Terminal Servers and delivering the Internet Explorer to your Mac using a protocol called RDP.

So yeah. The beta is free, but it's a service, and will probably be charged for as one.

 

[CylonGlitch]

I won't use IE on a Windows System, why would I want to use it under OSX?

 

[Hellhammer]

I won't use IE on a Windows System, why would I want to use it under OSX?

Nobody is forcing you to use it. I've faced several sites that require IE due to some plug-in. IE will definitely not be my number 1 browser choice but having an option to use it is never bad.

 

[Eric-PTEK]

Wow someone is going to sell that?

It's just remote app with IE packaged in it.

It's how I run IE, via remote app/RDP off a Win2K8R2 server.

You just tell the RDP app for the Mac to open IE on launch.

I need IE for SharePoint, Safari is close but IE does the small stuff that Safari still doesn't.

I would have serious security concerns since all your browsing and info entered is going through a third party. Why they are probably not a risk, its a nice big target for someone wanting to harvest info.

Now what would be nice is if they were not using the RDP app for the Mac but instead their own which made Remote App as seamless on the Mac as it is on Windows.

Flash/Video, etc will blow though.

With RDP 6.1 on the PC HD video via RDP is great but the Mac version is a bit behind.