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Turn a mac browser into internet explorer? Might be asking the question wrong.

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NYU02

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Ok, I might be asking the question wrong but here is my dilemma. The only reason I need windows on my mac is for a program that is run through internet explorer only. It won't work on firefox or anything else. It was certified for I.E. - I forget the minimum version it is certified for but the old, old I.E. for mac is too old and won't work. SO.....

Is there a way to turn a mac browser into functioning like internet explorer?

Thanks,
NYU02
 
tallest skil,
I tried that (thanks I didn't know it existed!!) BUT it is showing showing a blank white page? Am I doing something wrong?


Thanks,
NYU02
 
NYU02 said:
tallest skil,
I tried that (thanks I didn't know it existed!!) BUT it is showing showing a blank white page? Am I doing something wrong?


Thanks,
NYU02
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It probably requires an ActiveX plugin ... try my post above.
 
NYU02 said:
tallest skil,
I tried that (thanks I didn't know it existed!!) BUT it is showing showing a blank white page? Am I doing something wrong?
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Changing the user-agent only make the page think your browser is IE, it doesn't give Safari the ability to act like IE, e.g., it doesn't gain the ability to know how to process ActiveX. The IE4OSX or CrossOver's IE is likely your best bet, but I won't guarantee it'll work for what the page needs.
 
Any webpage/program that only runs on IE shouldn't be on the internet. :D

Sorry I have no answer to your question. Only thing I can say is to run Windows on a VM.
 
wackymacky said:
NOT that i ever use IE, but what about www.me.com not working properly with IE? Its a bit hypocritical to spit at Microsoft for this.

As much as I love them :apple:.inc is no defferent that other corporation
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I wasn't really spitting at Microsoft... just saying that a webpage should work regardless of the browser. And I never said it's OK for me.com to not work properly on IE. Apple should make it work on all of 'em (something tells me though that the real problem isn't Apple, its IE). Me.com is a very high-tech website and, well, IE is kinda living in the past.
 
I would love to see a detailed tech analysis about why Me.com doesn't work with IE. How complicated could that be? GMail supports IE, I don't believe me.com is any more complicated than gmail.
 
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_0 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Mobile/7A280f Safari/525.20)

The issues with me.com probably have more to do with SproutCore than they do with Apple. It's a framework originally made for Safari (I think).



OP, sounds like an Active X issue like others have said. Unfortunately, you'll need real IE for that, no spoofing.
 
fishkorp said:
The issues with me.com probably have more to do with SproutCore than they do with Apple. It's a framework originally made for Safari (I think).
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It might be. But SproutCore officially does support IE 7. And Im not sure if IE 6 is doing much different than IE 7 in terms of javascript.

Also, SproutCore is not originally created for safari, it was originally created for spoutit's mailroom application. Apple jumped in afterward, since its an OSS project. and It still is.
 
Jethryn Freyman said:
You could activate Safari's Debug menu and change the user agent to Internet Explorer.
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Learn what a user agent is.

Your only options are: Get an app which doesn't suck (recommended option), use parallels to run IE or download IES4OSX.

Most people who use Me.com are Mac Users anyway. Apple shouldn't need to waste hundreds of hours of work getting Me.com to work properly with a non-standards-compliant browser. AFAIK Apple don't prevent you from using IE on Me.com, it just displays a warning that it may not work correctly.
And gmail is so different from Me.com you cannot even compare.

In fact, its about time lots of major sites drop support for an 8 year old browser.
 
sleeptodream said:
Most people who use Me.com are Mac Users anyway. Apple shouldn't need to waste hundreds of hours of work getting Me.com to work properly with a non-standards-compliant browser. AFAIK Apple don't prevent you from using IE on Me.com, it just displays a warning that it may not work correctly.
And gmail is so different from Me.com you cannot even compare.

In fact, its about time lots of major sites drop support for an 8 year old browser.
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While it is probably true that most me.com users are also Mac users does not mean that they always have access to their Macs. What about if the Mac user is at work where they require Windows computers and they are locked down so that you cannot install anything else (banks, law offices, many other examples)? Or what about if they are at a hotel in a distant city without their Mac, and the hotel only provides locked-down Windows computers running IE (most likely IE6)? Just because you haven't been in such a situation doesn't mean that others have not. Apple's forums are ablaze with such examples.

And yes, I do wish sites would quit requiring IE, but the fact is that a very large number of business related sites do exactly that. ADP Totalsource is a good example; it 'sort of' works with Safari or FireFox if you change the user agent, but not enough to be really useful. And ADP is a very large provider of paychecks and hr services. Fortunately for me IE6 runs well enough under Crossover Office that I can get by.
 
Jethryn Freyman said:
LOL, probably. Can't believe I missed that :rolleyes:



A browser user agent is exactly what I said it was.
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Changing a user agent doesn't mean pages will be rendered as if you were using that browser.
The web app doesn't work with Firefox or anything else, he said.
 
jon08 said:
Where exactly is this Develop Menu thing? I couldn't find it on my Safari, and even when I went to Preferences - Advanced, it was nowhere to select??
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You need to enable the Debug menu. Google for it, there's a terminal command you can enter to enable the menu.
 
jon08 said:
Where exactly is this Develop Menu thing? I couldn't find it on my Safari, and even when I went to Preferences - Advanced, it was nowhere to select??
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In Safari 4, you enable it by clicking the box in Safari Preferences>Advanced>Show Develop menu in men bar.

In earlier versions, type this into Terminal.app

defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1
 
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