Comments on: Windows Internet Explorer for Mac – Finally!

By: Miracle Novel (KnottGylty)

Miracle Novel (KnottGylty) — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 20:36:41 +0000

Ohh…Woe is meee! I’m a Mac “not so expert, but loyal user” AND big fan…. that izz…. until I gotta collaborate with some ol “has-been” IE/Windows users. So I go in search of answers.. only to find myself chasing hundreds of lil’ white ‘url’ rabbits & falling into seemingly endless pits of despair. This is definitely NOT Wonderland!.. & pretty soon, if I can’t work this out… its gonna be OFF WITH MY HEAD!

Hey Justin, honey, sweetie, angel… u plan’n any trips 2 Bangkok? hehe I need someone to come & see the havoc I’ve created on my poor lil’ Mac baby & show me the way home! Dare I try your ies4osx advice?

Well “Braveheart” here is going for glory! I guess decapitation isn’t all that bad.. after all, poor Joan OA was burned alive! Wish me luck! This is only 1 of many problems, but I’ll be back to thank you if this solves at least 1 of em’.

By: Steve Drake

Steve Drake — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 02:19:13 +0000

It’s not just web developers who need IE. My UK bank is First Direct. Their internet banking only works with IE. You try it: http://www.firstdirect.com, then click the ‘internet banking plus’ link. You get a window saying Oops, incompatible browser. I’d switch banks in a second, but as I now live and work in New Zealand I doubt I could open a new account with another bank.

By: jennie

jennie — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:46:36 +0000

Thanks Justin! This totally saved me more hassle and frustration than IE already creates. I didn’t want to buy windows software just to test IE. Great find.

Jennie

By: FONDA WILCOX

FONDA WILCOX — Wed, 13 May 2009 17:49:41 +0000

Wogan, I totally agree with you except I think you’re missing one thing.
There are still some very slow Internet progressives like isqft dotcom which is a great site for the construction industry but they are still only set up for IE 6.0 or better and those of us that are in the NOW are having to look for useful tools like the IE for MacOS so that Fusion and Parallel doesn’t have to be deployed for a site visit.

All my best,
FONDA

By: sandi

sandi — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 03:29:19 +0000

I want to purchase a mac but must have windows ie for work. Only program MLS
will connect to.

Which program is the best to use to get this.

Thanks

By: Julie

Julie — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:02:41 +0000

Thank you for this incredibly valuable information. I have been looking for a solution to get IE on my mac for ages to test the websites I develop and this is a great solution. One question though, I’ve installed Darwin and ies4osx and I got Internet Explorer 6, which is great. But in your blog, you mentioned that ies4osx could install IE 5, 5.5, 6 and 7 beta and I can’t find how to do this. I looked in the toolbar of ies4osx app, but couldn’t find anything about this. Could you give me some advice here? Many thanks in advance!

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 18:14:43 +0000

Hi Justin, just wanted to say thanks for this article mate.

This is a lifesaver

I am a web designer and have needed to get this functionality on my mac for a while.

I can only assume that Microsoft and Apple are still having a bit of a tiff about the whole advertising campaign as the link to download I.E on microsoft.com no longer works! lol

Anyway, this has helped me a lot so thanks again!

Tom

By: Justin Hartman

Justin Hartman — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:42:56 +0000

Beth, try this online service http://ipinfo.info/netrenderer/

By: Beth

Beth — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 02:17:51 +0000

I am just a little ol’ end user….who LOVES her Mac… but have a need for IE, for a specific website that requires it… any other simple solution?

By: Kate Humphrey

Kate Humphrey — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:11:36 +0000

Wonderful. I will be installing this shortly. Sometimes worlds must collide. I have been on both sides of this debate in the web design world, and the painful truth is that in order to break it, you have to test it. And in order to test it, you either need a PC with IE or a way to emulate it. Thanks for this find.

Also, because not everyone codes for both platforms or all browsers, sometimes even MAC people have to search out IE to access a site they really need – Pete is a good case in point. Or my client, that needs to FTP from her browser and is on a PC, only IE will do that in BOTH directions. She doesn't want to use an FTP program and the client is always right. Thus, I need to test my FTP setting in IE on the MAC….

By: Kate Humphrey

Kate Humphrey — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:11:36 +0000

Also, because not everyone codes for both platforms or all browsers, sometimes even MAC people have to search out IE to access a site they really need – Pete is a good case in point. Or my client, that needs to FTP from her browser and is on a PC, only IE will do that in BOTH directions. She doesn’t want to use an FTP program and the client is always right. Thus, I need to test my FTP setting in IE on the MAC….

By: fred

fred — Wed, 14 May 2008 20:27:58 +0000

This is a good development. I need to test stuff with ActiveX, thing that I couldn't do on my Mac up until now (unless booting with Vista)

Cheers,

Fred

By: fred

fred — Wed, 14 May 2008 13:27:58 +0000

This is a good development. I need to test stuff with ActiveX, thing that I couldn’t do on my Mac up until now (unless booting with Vista)

Cheers,

Fred

By: Pete

Pete — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 04:47:17 +0000

hello.

i'm anything but an experienced computer user but have stumbled across this blog while looking for a way to get IE on my mac. the ibook G4 is fresh out the box and i have no idea what all these different downloads you mention are or how to get/use them. i urgently need IE to access a site that would allow me to work free lance as a translator and i need the cash this would bring even more urgently. would anyone be so kind as to give me a little step-by-step guide to getting all the required downloads and running IE.
i understand this may be a little naive but the truth is i'm almost clueless where to start.

thanks for any help

By: Pete

Pete — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:47:17 +0000

hello.

i’m anything but an experienced computer user but have stumbled across this blog while looking for a way to get IE on my mac. the ibook G4 is fresh out the box and i have no idea what all these different downloads you mention are or how to get/use them. i urgently need IE to access a site that would allow me to work free lance as a translator and i need the cash this would bring even more urgently. would anyone be so kind as to give me a little step-by-step guide to getting all the required downloads and running IE.
i understand this may be a little naive but the truth is i’m almost clueless where to start.

thanks for any help

By: Wogan May » The best browser in the world?

Wogan May » The best browser in the world? — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 02:22:24 +0000

[...] Justin Hartman blogged about a neat little app for Mac that allowed you to run IE7. I personally found that a little pointless, given that there’s a [...]

By: The best browser in the world?

The best browser in the world? — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 02:19:04 +0000

[...] Justin Hartman blogged about a neat little app for Mac that allowed you to run IE7. I personally found that a little pointless, given that there’s a [...]

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 01:10:39 +0000

Wicked cool. Great find Justin, I'm installing it as we speak.

Wogan: Us MAC users would love nothing more than to never touch IE again, but I am a web designer and am installing IE on my MAC purely for testing reasons.

By: Wogan May

Wogan May — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:43:24 +0000

As I said - it will appeal to a bunch of people that have Macs and need IE.

Have you tried browsershots.org?

So according to HitsLink, about 75% of internet users worldwide use IE. I'm guessing that the major reason for this is that more than 90% of the desktop OSs in the world are Windows, and that 100% of them have shipped with a version of IE.

http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qpr...

Couple that with a generation of computer users who don't want to mess around with software installs and plugins and other stuff, and just want Internet access - and you get to 75% very easily.

But what I said is true, in that there is a growing trend to move away from IE: http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qpr.... Note how the numbers changed dramatically after October 2007. Falling almost 1%/year.

Maybe I should have said "stick to switching to Firefox". FF has just proven itself over and over again. And given that Dell started shipping Ubuntu machines (with FF as the OS's browser of choice), we might see an even steeper decline in IE popularity.

Unless - as I said - there was an uber-talented MS developer that created a new browser that completely put the rest in the shade, and then shipped it with Windows 7.

All these things take time, so it'll be a while before we see any of this come to pass.

And as far as development goes - I deliberately use an older version of FF (1.5.0.13). Because if it works on here, it will probably work on any later version of IE, Opera or Safari that you can throw at it ;)

~ Wogan

By: Justin Hartman

Justin Hartman — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:08:28 +0000

Yeah Wogan I'm with Jason on this. I need IE6 & 7 to test compatibility issues and since I'm a Mac user testing on these browsers has either meant dual-booting with Windows or installing Parallels or Virtual PC.

This is the best scenario for me and I guess any Mac web-designer or developer.