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Mac Forum / Applications / Internet Explorer / March 2005IE 5.3 for Mac - not good enough for some websites
Hello all, Has anyone come across a situation whereby the most recent version of IE for MAC is not acceptable for a website? My wife is a realtor and the listing service that all realtors use in our area will not allow her to open and manage the online forms. She can use the other areas of the website, just not the one where you complete online forms. Any suggestions? Thanks! T.J. > Has anyone come across a situation whereby the most recent version of IE for > MAC is not acceptable for a website? IE for Mac is no longer being developed. Try Safari or Mozilla.  SignatureAdam Bailey | Chicago, Illinois adamb@lull.org | Finger/Web for PGP & S/MIME adamkb@aol.com | http://www.lull.org/adam I was afraid of that. This website absolutely requires IE. In fact, when you try to use firefox or safari, the website states that it requires IE. There must be something that can be done, or a tweak somewhere. Since Microsoft is no longer developing I guess I'll have to return the mac and get a crappy pc laptop. Dell... Here we come... I can not believe that I will have to sacrifice using a mac because of a browser issue. That's bullcrap! On 3/8/05 9:23 AM, in article slrnd2rdam.1d0.adamb@millennium.akb.lull.org, >> Has anyone come across a situation whereby the most recent version of IE for >> MAC is not acceptable for a website? > > IE for Mac is no longer being developed. Try Safari or Mozilla. > I was afraid of that. This website absolutely requires IE. In fact, when > you try to use firefox or safari, the website states that it requires IE. The web site only "states" that it requires IE because the developer who wrote it decided to say so. That's not necessarily true. Your first step should be to complain to the sight's developer. > There must be something that can be done, or a tweak somewhere. There is. You can probably get around this by changing the browser's identification string (User Agent) to identify itself as IE. Safari can do this if you enable the Debug menu via a tool like Safari Enhancer. Similar options exist for other web browsers as well. > Since Microsoft is no longer developing Also keep in mind that Mac IE is completely different from Windows IE. A web site that claims it only works with Internet Explorer won't necessarily work with Mac Internet Explorer, even if it were current. SignatureAdam Bailey | Chicago, Illinois adamb@lull.org | Finger/Web for PGP & S/MIME adamkb@aol.com | http://www.lull.org/adam > The web site only "states" that it requires IE because the developer who > wrote it decided to say so. That's not necessarily true. > > Your first step should be to complain to the sight's developer. Some browsers can "pretend" to be IE. I do that all the time with OmniWeb and I know Safari can do it providing you can access the Debug options. The Debug options are a little difficuot to get to, but I know apps like Cocktail or TikerTool System can help you out. Corentin Signature--- Mac:MS MVP (Francophone) --- http://www.mvps.org - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com MVPs are not MS employees - Les MVP ne travaillent pas pour MS Remove "NoSpam" to e-mail me - Retirez "NoSpam" pour m'écrire Corentin, Thanks for the help. Unfortunately, I am not experienced enough to do what you suggest. Does anyone have a step by step guide for doing this? I added the user agent "thing-a-ma-jig" to firefox and it did not work. Hence, I am looking for another solution. Perhaps what you are mentioning might work for safari. Nonetheless, I will require more information to even attempt this. I smell a disaster coming forth!!! Cheers, TJ On 3/9/05 10:54 AM, in article 1gt5i0t.mb2bfopnjcukN%korventeen@NoSpam.mvps.org, "Corentin Cras-Méneur" <korventeen@NoSpam.mvps.org> wrote: >> The web site only "states" that it requires IE because the developer who >> wrote it decided to say so. That's not necessarily true. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Corentin Well folks.... We went back to the mac store and had to purchas virtual pc. I really hate that we did, but everything is now working. One of the 'gurus' at the mac store actually went onto the troubled website (using virtual PC mind you) and looked at the code on the page. He concurred that that the page was written in MSXML (not the open version either), and thus all other browsers would not work. Interestingly enough, if you had windows 95, it would not work either... What a crock! Ok, enough bitching about idiot web programmers. The end result is that it is now working. Thank you all for your assistance. Cheers. On 3/8/05 11:16 PM, in article slrnd2su3o.1ge.adamb@millennium.akb.lull.org, >> I was afraid of that. This website absolutely requires IE. In fact, when >> you try to use firefox or safari, the website states that it requires IE. [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > site that claims it only works with Internet Explorer won't necessarily work > with Mac Internet Explorer, even if it were current. > Well folks.... We went back to the mac store and had to purchas virtual pc. > I really hate that we did, but everything is now working. One of the [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > idiot web programmers. The end result is that it is now working. Thank you > all for your assistance. Cheers. What a pain... Yeah, unforutunately some webmasters code their pages in IE only code :-( Yuk!!! Sorry no other solution did the trick. I was also obviously too late to come back and try and help you out making other browsers pretend to be IE (but as it appears, that wouldn't have helped,), Corentin Signature--- Mac:MS MVP (Francophone) --- http://www.mvps.org - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com MVPs are not MS employees - Les MVP ne travaillent pas pour MS Remove "NoSpam" to e-mail me - Retirez "NoSpam" pour m'écrire > > Well folks.... We went back to the mac store and had to purchas virtual pc. > > I really hate that we did, but everything is now working. One of the [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > come back and try and help you out making other browsers pretend to be > IE (but as it appears, that wouldn't have helped,), don't forget those who add vbscript and active-x to the webpage made in mshtml Signature------------------------------------------- Swedish Webcams <http://www.webcams.zap.to> ------------------------------------------- > Hello all, > Has anyone come across a situation whereby the most recent version of IE for > MAC is not acceptable for a website? My wife is a realtor and the listing > service that all realtors use in our area will not allow her to open and > manage the online forms. She can use the other areas of the website, just > not the one where you complete online forms. Any suggestions? Thanks! I suggest trying Firefox or Mozilla with the "User Agent Switcher" extension installed. http://www.chrispederick.com/work/firefox/useragentswitcher/ Setting the browser type in the switcher to IE 6 seems to work well. John Thank you for the advice. I did install the user agent switcher that you provided within the link, but it still did not work. I can log on (even with firefox in default mode), but it's this one damn area that's driving me nuts! The page will load but the area where you would select the realestate forms doesn't even show up. Do you have any other advice? Thanks again, I had really hoped that this would work. Keep throwing ideas this way and I'll try them. On 3/8/05 6:37 PM, in article jfoh-439FD6.18373908032005@newsclstr01.news.prodigy.com, "John Halloran" <jfoh@ct.invalid> wrote: >> Hello all, >> Has anyone come across a situation whereby the most recent version of IE for [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > John |
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