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Yes unfortunately you have to because some people design websites in internet explorer without thinking about mac users. Luckily in this case the website will open in firefox. I'd keep it installed on you mac just in case you run into a problem like this again. It is a good browser for those circumstances.
Wait.... no. If this site supports Netscape and Firefox as well as IE, you can almost certainly use the Agent Spoof feature from the Debug menu of Safari.
Do this:
1) Enable the Debug menu if you have not already done so
2) In Safari, Debug -> User Agent -> try one of the options (perhaps Netscape 7).
Now load the site. See if that works.
When sites only support IE, they're usually very picky. When they support Firefox and Netscape, they should work fine in Safari, and the web authors are just dinguses.
(All this does is to make Safari "pretend" to be something other than Safari when asked to identify itself to a website. If Safari can understand the results the website sends back, you're golden. If the website sends back ActiveX objects or something like that, you're still SoL. You can leave the Debug menu on (or just replace the 1 in the instructions with 0 to turn it off) -- it has some other useful stuff in it.)
Do this:
1) Enable the Debug menu if you have not already done so
2) In Safari, Debug -> User Agent -> try one of the options (perhaps Netscape 7).
Now load the site. See if that works.
When sites only support IE, they're usually very picky. When they support Firefox and Netscape, they should work fine in Safari, and the web authors are just dinguses.
(All this does is to make Safari "pretend" to be something other than Safari when asked to identify itself to a website. If Safari can understand the results the website sends back, you're golden. If the website sends back ActiveX objects or something like that, you're still SoL. You can leave the Debug menu on (or just replace the 1 in the instructions with 0 to turn it off) -- it has some other useful stuff in it.)
If you really like safari i would try that. Great tip mkrishnan i had never hear of that debug menu before. It opens up alot of features for safari.
Glad you like it! 
It is a cool feature. There's no particular need to disable it -- it won't do too much harm and most of the settings in it do not make persistent changes to Safari (most of it's there to "debug" web designs). So I would just leave it.
Also if you use any of a number of excellent plugins like SafariStand, many of them have a click button to turn the menu on and off (but you have to restart Safari for the menu to appear or disappear).
Now comes the good part. Good luck getting the job!
It is a cool feature. There's no particular need to disable it -- it won't do too much harm and most of the settings in it do not make persistent changes to Safari (most of it's there to "debug" web designs). So I would just leave it.
Also if you use any of a number of excellent plugins like SafariStand, many of them have a click button to turn the menu on and off (but you have to restart Safari for the menu to appear or disappear).
Now comes the good part. Good luck getting the job!