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What do you do when a website requires you to open it in IE... I mean linux does not support IE...
Any alternatives?
Website Requests IE
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, Jan 27 2009 06:55 AM
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Posted 27 January 2009 - 06:55 AM
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Posted 27 January 2009 - 08:21 AM
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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.
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Posted 27 January 2009 - 09:29 AM
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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.
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Posted 27 January 2009 - 11:11 PM
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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!
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!
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Posted 28 January 2009 - 05:20 AM
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If you find a solution, let me know. I'm at the same place here at work.
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Posted 28 January 2009 - 06:02 PM
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Wine works pretty well for IE. The trouble is some companies can't afford cross browser compatability, so they code for the masses
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Posted 28 January 2009 - 11:50 PM
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Well, I guess IE Tab won't work in Linux right? Not even if maybe you import some DLL's or something from windows?
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Posted 29 January 2009 - 06:59 AM
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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).
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Posted 29 January 2009 - 07:32 AM
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Isn't there certain things in ASP that only work in IE though?
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Posted 29 January 2009 - 02:10 PM
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Not that I'm aware of. There's a lot of JavaScript that's IE only, and VBScript is IE only.
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Posted 31 January 2009 - 04:21 AM
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Microsoft Sucks!! They do anything to prevent compatibility with other browsers such as firefox...
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Posted 31 January 2009 - 05:08 AM
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The problem is that early in the days of the internet, everybody was innovating to add functionality to the web, but there was no standard way of doing it. Different scripting languages got added, different DOM models got added, etc.
When standards started to be created, MS was on the short side of the stick, but developers didn't care because they were developing for IE. That is changing, but slowly.
When standards started to be created, MS was on the short side of the stick, but developers didn't care because they were developing for IE. That is changing, but slowly.
