Run IE 6 on your Intel Mac without Windows

I can see why this might be helpful to developers in the current environment. But surely the long-term goal must be to persuade Microsoft to bring IE in line with accepted standards? Chicken and egg, I know, but given the increase in Firefox's popularity, this must at least be a possibility.

For now, a seperate windows laptop is fine, combined with my iMac G5. But hen I get an intel mac (most likely early next year) I'll definitely go for the wintel-app-on-osx solution. I only need IE6/7 to see what the nitwitz in the world see :)

Nice script. I'll try it very soon. I can check how my site looks in IE.
Will come a new version for the next IE 7 ?

I'll wait for some sort of installer. :)

It's not about WANTING to use IE on a Mac, its that we HAVE to test our webpages we make in IE, as its rendering engine does not conform to proper HTML and CSS standards, so you end up finding that your pages that looked fine in firefox, camino, and safari look messed up in IE.

The main reason i would want to run parallels is a way to quickly test my pages in IE.

who the frick cares? Who uses IE on a mac for god sake?

Regarding comment 8 from Ralph, - Why make a Mac version; they can just boot into Windows and run it.

Because as a developer the constant rebooting will make the Mac seem even more like a Windows machine than ever. The loss of productivity as a result of having to shut down your development environment and loss of the ability to review code will testing becomes an enormous productivity hit.

Parallels Workstation and its ability to run a virtual windows session under Mac OS X is a far more efficient way to go.

The thing you want to watch for is the CrossOver Office release for Mac OS X. I used to use this product under linux before I got my Mac and it worked beautifully for what I used it for. It is a commercial product based on WINE with LOTS of value added for ease of use. And the fact that it has such great application support for linux means it likely will retain that on OS X. It benefits from advances in WINE but has added some of its own as well. I used to run IE6 on linux with no trouble at all and the Windows version of Quicktime worked very nicely under CrossOver as well. They are promising a shipping version in 2006 per this release: http://www.codeweavers.com/about/general/press/?id=20050809

"In addition, due to Apple Computer's recent announcement that it will be moving to Intel x86 chips for its Macintosh PC products next year, CodeWeavers looks forward to making CrossOver Office available for Windows-to-Mac application porting in 2006."

I think this is great, there are a couple of sites I frequent which only display properly on IE for Windows, now I'll be able to view those sites from IE6 straight from OS X!
Sure I'd prefer that the sites displayed correctly in all sites, but this is a great work around which allows you to see them properly from a Mac.

Randy

typical nothing better to say on the subject responce...

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