Website Requests IE

[MyPassionLinux]

What do you do when a website requires you to open it in IE... I mean linux does not support IE...

Any alternatives?

[WingedPanther]

IE can be installed under wine. I'm a big fan of contacting the webmaster and telling them that you use FIreFox to avoid IE's security issues, however.

[Jordan]

This is one of the issues I have at work with Linux. Most of our corporate Intranet sites use ASP which only work well with IE. I generally just tried to avoid these sites and if I must use IE I will run it under wine or boot to a virtual machine running Windows.

[MyPassionLinux]

Seems like too much hassle to run it in a VM.. but maybe I'll install it with wine...

That's my problem, because my school webmail is Microsoft Exchange.. and it doesn't work so well plus we have a sstem to check the results... and it's in ASP, so in FF it sucks!

[Jordan]

If you find a solution, let me know. I'm at the same place here at work.

[tekmiester]

Wine works pretty well for IE. The trouble is some companies can't afford cross browser compatability, so they code for the masses

[MyPassionLinux]

Well, I guess IE Tab won't work in Linux right? Not even if maybe you import some DLL's or something from windows?

[WingedPanther]

Just a quick comment: ASP serves up HTML/CSS/JavaScript to the browser. It is the quality of the served HTML that sucks (hacked for IE only, obviously).

[Hektor]

Isn't there certain things in ASP that only work in IE though?

[WingedPanther]

Not that I'm aware of. There's a lot of JavaScript that's IE only, and VBScript is IE only.