Web Problem?

My Daughter's new Mac can't access her work website. She says she needs IE and the version of IE that works for her Mac is too old. I had her try Firefox and she says that doesn't work either. I'll try to get some more specific info (error messages etc.) and update this. She's away at college right now. I'm a PC guy so I'm really kind of lost here. I think it may be an issue with her employers web developer. Any suggestions would be appreciated. It's a six month old MacBook running OS X. Not the latest one, the one before. (Tiger?) thanx

If you could give us a URL we might be able to help more

Sometimes you can get those IE only sites to work

There are an awful lot of lazily coded non Standards compliant sites out there. That's a shame since the whole idea of the Internet is to be open to all systems

She could use Crossover to run the Windows version of Internet Explorer inside OS X. It works pretty good and saves the trouble of having to dual-boot or use Fusion/Parallels to load Windows in a window just to run a web browser. Crossover will walk you through the steps of downloading and installing IE.

You can find the demo here, good one lifeisabeach

http://www.codeweavers.com/products/

Another idea: have her get the Firefox browser, then direct her to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59 - User Agent Switcher.

Then when she goes to her work website, beforehand, she changes Firefox to tell the site that it is, in fact, IE6, and it'll work fine.

i use that add on works wonders

mephron said:

Another idea: have her get the Firefox browser, then direct her to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59 - User Agent Switcher.

Then when she goes to her work website, beforehand, she changes Firefox to tell the site that it is, in fact, IE6, and it'll work fine.

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yea.. It kinda works for me. It is really buggy though. My windows only website kinda displays but there are fragments of code everywhere.

Sounds like a perfect opportunity for her to tell her work that they need to buy her a PC laptop to work with if it is that needed for her to do her job.

My work has some IE only websites as well. For those websites to work, I can only use IE (agent switching doesn't work). This is a good time for your daughter to either purchase Leopard and use boot camp or get Parallels or Fusion. Some of the sites at my work use some IE only Javascript.

Unfortunately there are some times when you need IE...

Thank you all for the quick replies. I'll forward them to her asap.

At work we use Microsoft Contact Relationship Manager (CRM). It requires IE 6+. So I am forced to use a PC. But recently we bought VMware Fusion and it just kicks butt =)