I went for an upgrade for IE, but the page “no longer exists”. That jogged a vague memory that IE was no longer going to support mac. No real loss, imo, but one of my sites prefers IE. I presently use Safari, which works great.
I did use my “once per century” search priviledge, but was unsuccessful on my one try. You all know what that means.
Peace,
mangeorge
Long, long gone.
Wikipedia says:
You mean one of the sites you regularly visit? Contact them and tell them to fix their site so it isn’t reliant on one browser, it’s woefully unprofessional.
If you mean it’s one of your own sites you maintain yourself, then you should do the fixing. It won’t be hard to find the generic equivalents to make it widely compatible.
Good old wiki. I should have known, but I didn’t try them.
Thanks a trillion, Pork Rind.
That’s odd. Earlier today, I heard from a coworker that Apple had somewhat recently started including IE with new Macs. Now I don’t know what to believe. Not that I care; I’ve got a Mac Mini and usually run Linux on it, and neither partition is sullied by IE.
It’s a site I just started using, one that provides me a service. You’re right, it’s unprofessional. I’m in the process of telling them exactly that.
Thanks
Completely erroneous.
Apple has been providing a browser (Safari) with new machines for several years. IE for the Mac is dead and gone. Good riddance.
I gave up on IE and started using Firefox before I made the move to Mac
In case there are folks out there who still have a need for IE on the Mac-I find that iCab spoofs IE quite well. There are sites that try to check and make sure you are accessing them with IE-rarely public sites-and iCab can spoof almost any browser and work.
I didn’t think we’d see the day where not only is Internet Explorer not available for Apple computers(that run OS X), but Safari is available for Windows users.
Yet, here we are.
For the few sites I run into that Safari can’t handle, I just boot up Opera and between the two of them, everything is covered. I probably should just surf in Opera, but I have an irrational attachment to Safari.
If anyone was desperate enough to need the old versions of Mac IE, they are still out there…
I also have an attachment to safari. I say that, as GuanoLad does, if the site can’t handle safari, then that site needs fixing.
you could also use an extension for Firefox (and probably Opera has something similar, dunno about Safari though) that makes websites think it’s IE and they’ll run just fine. I personally am not a huge fan of Safari, though I’ll grant it’s about eleventy-billion times better than IE. I’m a Firefox fan, personally. Love me some extensions
Keep in mind that spoofing doesn’t always work. You might be able to convince the server that Firefox is IE, but if the site wants to use an IE feature that Firefox doesn’t have you’re still SOL.