Why would you want to do something like install Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 on Apple's OS X? Well, the sad truth is that IE6 is still the most prevalent web browser in the world, and web designers-even the Mac kind-can't afford to start ignoring it yet. Unsurprisingly, the trick to getting IE to run on OS X is based on
IEs4Linux, a tool with the same purpose, but for Linux. For the Mac, however, it takes a bit more fiddling, as described in
this thread on the Ars Technica forums. Not exactly a one-click install, but probably preferable for some to actuall getting Windows.
Tags: browser, ie, ie6, internetexplorer, mac, osx
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Subscribe to commentsTwistJun 7th 2006 5:28PM
Wonder how long it will take someone to make a package installer for this.
dmcknightJun 8th 2006 12:02AM
This is for brand-stinking-new Intel (drm) Mac's only, apparently.
MikeJun 8th 2006 6:43AM
Absolutely unnecessary. Both Safari and Opera can use IE sites. There are two issues here: design for IE and functionality for IE. As I wrote, Safari and Opera both render IE-designed sites quite well. If webmasters of these sites were smarter, they would use CSS to detect the brower and send it the right stylesheet. For functionality: screw them. I'll find a competitor and use them instead.
Eliakim LittellJun 17th 2006 9:36PM
Well - if you're an out of market baseball fan and want to watch MLB TV with it's embedded media player, Safari, Netscape and Firefox just don't work right. Explorer might just be the answer for me!