I need a fake internet explorer?

If the site you need to access uses Windows-only technology, such as ActiveX, which is common in the realestate industry, there is no alternative but to use Windows.

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Sometimes sites that will not accept IE 5.5 will accept Firefox. Give it a try and see if it works.

Miriam

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To reinforce what Tom said, many real estate sites use ActiveX which will only work with Windows and only with Internet Explorer 6 for Windows. The creators of the real estate web packages are blocking out all non-Windows users and all users of alternative Windows browsers such as Firefox and opera.

There is a way to change Safari's user agent, which is the calling card Safari uses to identify itself when it accesses a web site and you can change the user agent to IE/Win 6. This will only change how Safari announces itself and it will not make Safari emulate the browser whose user agent you are using. If you want to test this out for yourself, you need to enable Safari's debug menu either by downloading the free utility Safari Enhancer or by opening Terminal (in the Utilities folder in Applications) and pasting the following into it, followed by pressing return and closing Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1

Changing the user agent may get you past the front door, if the site uses ActiveX, you will still not be able to actually use the site.

the browser called iCab has a preference setting allowing it to masquerade as any other major browser. As others said tho, if ActiveX is the problem, you need Windows (e.g. with Virtual PC or wait until you can run it natively on you Intel Mac)

You can download iCab from www.icab.de

The new Intel Macs are capable of running an Apple program called BootCamp, which will allow you to partition your drive and run Windows (as fast or faster than on a PC) on one partition, and OS X on the other, with no spillover. So you could access your real estate programs on the Windows side, and then re-boot into OS X on the other partition and use it for the rest of your work.

Hope this helps,
Miriam

Afterthought: this page should be of interest to you, it bears directly on your problem,
MGW

Yet another afterthought: this program will allow you to run Windows in parallel on your Mac without having to reboot. However, I worry about its permiability, it may allow Windows viruses to penetrate the Mac OS, although this has not been demonstrated.
MGW

ActiveX is a proprietary technology owned by Microsoft and they actively encourage people to use it because it then locks people into Windows and Internet Explorer for Windows. There is no law that says web sites must be programed using only open standards such that the sites would be available cross-platform.

There is probably a special feed tailored for the Blackberry in the same way there are specially designed pages for cell phones, but I don't know the details of how the sites communicate with Blackberries.

By your username (realesate pro) it appears you are in the business. If so it's important to know that the real estate business seems particularly joined at the hip to Microsoft Windows. A majority of MLS software, servers, etc., use Microsoft's ActiveX technology and thereby lock out any other computing platform. We've seen a good number of real estate agents posting here about problems using Macs to access MLS databases and such. The administrators of those databases turn a deaf ear to those users and, apparently, are quite hostile to them.

Good luck.