Internet Explorer on Intel Macs

In addition to what David says, there are many better broswers out there. Unless you need it for testing websites that you are putting together, there really is no need to even have it on your Mac.

You can use Camino and/or Firefox and have them "spoof" themselves as IE for some difficult websites if needed. I use Camino - which is universal - and use CamiTools to make additional rweaks to it, like making it ID itself to websites as IE or Safari or any of several other broswers.

and Safari also automatically opens up zipfiles it downloads, which I don't want it to.

With Safari open, from the menubar select Safari->Preferences...

Within the General preferences untick the Open "safe" files after downloading box.

RD

Hi Chamonix jim

i have the IE 5.2 installer if you want it, contact me defcom at gmail.com

Tony

Hello,

I have located a download of Internet Explorer 5.2.3 (the latest Mac version) at:

http://browsers.evolt.org/download.php?/ie/mac/5.2.3OS_X/InternetExplorer523en.dmg

You should be able to download it from one of the 3 sites linked on that page (3 different download links).

If you need it in a language other than English, you should be able to find those at:

http://browsers.evolt.org/?ie/mac/5.2.3OSX

Keep in mind that while this should run fine on your Mac, that the Macintosh version of Internet Explorer never supported ActiveX.

ActiveX is the technology that makes many websites require Internet Explorer. This is a method of allowing the website to control your computer, and perform functions that would be more difficult to perform using plain HTML.

Unfortunately, ActiveX is used by many sites that don't realize the importance of making a site universally compatible.

Many webmasters simply assume that since the majority use Windows, that there is no problem using "Windows Only" code.

Unfortunately, Microsoft has maintained tight control over ActiveX. So, there is no other browser that will work with it. If the sites you need use ActiveX, then you absolutely will need Windows and the Windows version of Internet Explorer to access those sites (even other browsers will not work with ActiveX sites when running under Windows - it must be the Windows version of Internet Explorer or nothing).

Some sites will work with other browsers, but have a detection mechanism in them.

Those sites can be made to work by simply changing the identification code that your browser provides that website. The previous posts have already detailed how to do that.

But, changing your identification code will not make a site function properly if it requires ActiveX.

Fortunately, the only portions of the site that should fail are those that use ActiveX.

I hope this helps you out. Good luck.

Glad to help.

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