Aphex's App of the Week - ies4osx (Internet Explorer 6 for OSX, supports ActiveX)

[aphex]

Aphex's App of the Week - Week of 10/3/08


[__ies4osx__]


Licenses: Free

Info: Testing your websites on Internet Explorer? has never been so easy. it's as simple as doubleclicking the installer. ies4osx will download all the necessary files and install them in a convenient app package named "Internet Explorer 6.0" on your Desktop folder.

My Take: Don't get me wrong, i HATE IE with a passion. But the one thing that's been keeping my parents (and some others) from fully making the switch to OSX and leaving XP behind is the lack of Active X support in OSX. Some websites are ActiveX only, which means Mac users were forced to use Parallels or Bootcamp to get in. Well this does the trick perfectly. Download Darwine first and install to Applications, then download ies4osx and run. It will download IE6 directly from MSFT and create a working app in OSX. Very low cpu usage while running and it works perfectly for us here, very impressed.

Please Note: Tiger users will need to install X11 from their Tiger Install DVD.

 

[Kaido]

Nice, now I can put IE7 in my VMware without have to do the funky dual-browser thing for webtesting :thumbsup:

 

[Kmax82]

Hmm.. still says that I need X11 even though I'm on Leopard. Weird.

 

[sourceninja]

I have IE6 and IE7 running (for the most part) in crossover office wine bottles.

 

[umrigar]

Originally posted by: Kmax82
Hmm.. still says that I need X11 even though I'm on Leopard. Weird.

Even after installing Darwine?

 

[Kmax82]

Originally posted by: umrigar

Originally posted by: Kmax82
Hmm.. still says that I need X11 even though I'm on Leopard. Weird.

Even after installing Darwine?

Yea.. I think I'm doing something wrong...

 

[Kmax82]

Originally posted by: sourceninja
I have IE6 and IE7 running (for the most part) in crossover office wine bottles.

How'd you get IE7 working?

 

[sourceninja]

It's not the greatest and it's not stable. But a friend of mine showed me how to extract some cab files and replace them in an IE6 install. It does indeed seem to render like IE7 does on my windows vm.

 

[suklee]

Originally posted by: umrigar

Originally posted by: Kmax82
Hmm.. still says that I need X11 even though I'm on Leopard. Weird.

Even after installing Darwine?

I had to install X11 as well