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IE8 for Macintosh?
worker201:
--- Quote from: davidnix71 on 28 March 2009, 17:59 ---There is an IE8 app that runs from the desktop in OSX on Intel Macs only.
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Links/evidence, please.
I'll install it, if it exists, just for kicks.
davidnix71:
It's this one Worker. It's only for Intel macs and uses wine. You can add the media player, flash and java if you like.
http://www.kronenberg.org/ies4osx/
I tried it on my ppc and when i double clicked it, it said it won't run on my platform.
worker201:
This isn't IE8, it's IE6 - you can tell by the way it chokes on transparent pngs. Anyway, you're not missing much - it's by far the most crashtastic program I've ever used. 3 total attempts.
1. Window opens and attempts to load winehq. All graphics appear, including the wineglass png (with background), but load indicator shows that the paged never finished loading completely. The window is completely dead - can't left or right click anywhere. After about 15 seconds, the process kills itself, with no error messages.
2. Window opens and attempts to load the IE homepage, which would probably try to convince me to upgrade to IE8. But all that loads are a light blue background and a small white rectangle before the window goes dead, as before. 20 seconds later, process dies again.
3. Window opens and attempts to load winehq again. Doesn't get nearly as far as before. Was able to take the following screenshot before death occurred:
http://www.triple-bypass.net/download/screenshots/ie6-leopard.png
(notice that in the screenshot, reported internal temp is 75C - now that the process is dead, temp is down to 63)
Well, that was exciting. Never again.
davidnix71:
http://blog.mozmonkey.com/2008/vpc-ie6-ie7-ie8-on-mac-os-x/
This one isn't easy, but they say it works. You have to convert a VPC image from MS to make it work.
worker201:
Yeah, I'm not excited enough about it to go through all that work of running qemu.
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