Internet Explorer on Linux

Athlonight · 04-09-05, 12:26 AM

Is this possible ??

telexen · 04-09-05, 12:39 AM

With the plethora of [much] better browsers available, such as Mozilla, Firefox, and Opera (including many others)...there's just no reason to.

But you can try Wine

Athlonight · 04-09-05, 12:47 AM

Wine? I cant play on msn gaming zone on linux without IE

petteyg359 · 04-09-05, 12:51 AM

Wine doesn't do IE. CrossOver Office will let you run IE on Linux (also lets you run Office and other stuff). It does cost a lot to buy it, though.

Telexen: IE is still the most standards-compliant/-capable browser, hopefully Firefox will catch up to that soon. I know of several sites that require IE, but most of them are probably paid to do that by Macro***** (Neveron.com, OTOH, has some stuff that requires IE, because other browsers don't support it).

Athlonight · 04-09-05, 12:54 AM

i mean why go from windows to linux if you can't access the full net.. ?

telexen · 04-09-05, 12:55 AM

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Originally Posted by petteyg359

Telexen: IE is still the most standards-compliant/-capable browser

Now *that* is a lie

They're the most standard compliant to Microsoft's OWN HTML/CSS/Javascript/etc standards...not real standards

gigahertz · 04-09-05, 01:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Athlonight

i mean why go from windows to linux if you can't access the full net.. ?

what are you talking about?

Athlonight · 04-09-05, 01:16 AM

you CANT go to msn gaming zone and some other sites with this mozilla..

Midnight Dream · 04-09-05, 02:18 AM

Though I dont use it, solution is Opera I believe.

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Originally Posted by Opera

Browser spoofing

When sites are poorly written and set up to work with only one or a limited set of browsers, Opera provides the user with the ability to masquerade as another browser to get optimized content.

Athlonight · 04-09-05, 02:53 AM

nice!

Athlonight · 04-09-05, 03:20 AM

how do you browser spoof on opera

Midnight Dream · 04-09-05, 03:23 AM

I believe it would be somewhere in the settings, though if you are willing to wait until tommorow evening (after 9PM EST) I could emerge it and tell you. I have work till then.

Athlonight · 04-09-05, 03:41 AM

it was spoofed as IE, and msn gaming zone doesnt work.. is there a way to use the real IE in linux fedora core 3 ?

kaltag · 04-09-05, 03:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Athlonight

it was spoofed as IE, and msn gaming zone doesnt work.. is there a way to use the real IE in linux fedora core 3 ?

Wine- http://winehq.com/
Crossover Office - http://www.codeweavers.com/
Those are your options. Have fun.

klingens · 04-09-05, 05:05 AM

I just don't get people who go to the trouble of installing and using linux, then insisting on Windows programs where better non-windows alternatives exist. I can understand it (barely) if they want to get things like AutoCAD working in Linux, but IE?
The mind boggles.

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Telexen: IE is still the most standards-compliant/-capable browser

Is there a hall of fame on ocforums? Please?

IrQ · 04-09-05, 05:12 AM

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Originally Posted by klingens

I just don't get people who go to the trouble of installing and using linux, then insisting on Windows programs where better non-windows alternatives exist. I can understand it (barely) if they want to get things like AutoCAD working in Linux, but IE?
The mind boggles.

Is there a hall of fame on ocforums? Please?

Im treading carefully with this post as I dont want to start a flame, but as a general disagreement he is right. Linux is far better, more stable, and just overall works better. All of my problems suddenly dissappeared when I switched over to linux. But some things do require IE, such as msn gameing zone whih apperently he uses. Some people prefer MSN gameing over spynet and the others, its just there preference. Maybe people he plays against only use msn. For that case your kinda stuck using IE which they wont and do not make for IE. Facts of life...

trailnut · 04-09-05, 07:43 AM

I believe the Mozilla browser has a spoofer in it as well but I don't believe it works at MSN sites. Sorry.

klingens · 04-09-05, 07:46 AM

Yes some things need IE, but it's anything but due to a "standard". The only real reason ever for using IE is ActiveX, and if that's a standard then we really need a new Internet.

I agree he might find IE better or more agreeable, there is no squabbling about taste. But talking about standards and IE in the same sentence needs negation on between to make it a true statement.

petteyg359 · 04-09-05, 09:04 AM

Specific example of requiring IE, and it's not because it's a M$ site (and it doesn't use ActiveX):

Neveron.com... It's a battetech MMO(RP)G. Their site is only accessible through IE. They've had people exploit bugs on it before, and they fix them as they can, but due to differences in the way IE, Opera, Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape, etc. work, those things could be exploited differently with a different browser. They don't want to have to go through them all again just to support other browsers.

Gnufsh · 04-09-05, 09:08 AM

Things that need ie generally do so because they break the standards (which can be found here: http://www.w3.org/) and use ie-specific things.

I do have ie working under wine (I don't use it, so I don't know why). This thread over at the gentoo forums was very helpful in figuring it out:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-148168.html

These may also be helpful (tools for configuring wine and installing some things like dcom98 and ie):
http://www.von-thadden.de/Joachim/WineTools/
http://sidenet.ddo.jp/winetips/config.html

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Athlonight Disabled Join Date: Apr 2005	Internet Explorer on Linux Is this possible ??
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04-09-05, 12:39 AM	#2
telexen Member Join Date: Jun 2003	With the plethora of [much] better browsers available, such as Mozilla, Firefox, and Opera (including many others)...there's just no reason to. But you can try Wine
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04-09-05, 12:47 AM	Thread Starter #3
Athlonight Disabled Join Date: Apr 2005	Wine? I cant play on msn gaming zone on linux without IE
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04-09-05, 12:51 AM	#4
petteyg359 Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: University of Southern Mississippi	Wine doesn't do IE. CrossOver Office will let you run IE on Linux (also lets you run Office and other stuff). It does cost a lot to buy it, though. Telexen: IE is still the most standards-compliant/-capable browser, hopefully Firefox will catch up to that soon. I know of several sites that require IE, but most of them are probably paid to do that by Macro***** (Neveron.com, OTOH, has some stuff that requires IE, because other browsers don't support it). __________________ MSI 890GXM-G65 - X6 1055T - 16GiB 10700 - 5850 1GiB - 7 Pro x64 / Gentoo amd64 - HX520 Dell XPS 15 L502x - i7 2760QM - 16GiB 12800 - GT 540M 2GiB - 7 Pro x64 / Gentoo amd64 - Agility 4 512GB [GB ≠ GiB] [MB ≠ MiB] [kB ≠ kiB] [1000 ≠ 1024] [Giga ≠ gram] [Mega ≠ milli] [Kelvin ≠ kilo] [Byte ≠ bit] "Apparently, Plaintiff believes that he could sue an egg company for fraud for labeling a carton of 12 eggs a “dozen,” because some bakers would view a “dozen” as including 13 items." - Western Digital 2006
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Athlonight Disabled Join Date: Apr 2005	i mean why go from windows to linux if you can't access the full net.. ?
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Athlonight Disabled Join Date: Apr 2005	you CANT go to msn gaming zone and some other sites with this mozilla..
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04-09-05, 03:41 AM	Thread Starter #13
Athlonight Disabled Join Date: Apr 2005	it was spoofed as IE, and msn gaming zone doesnt work.. is there a way to use the real IE in linux fedora core 3 ?
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04-09-05, 07:43 AM	#17
trailnut Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Upstate NY	I believe the Mozilla browser has a spoofer in it as well but I don't believe it works at MSN sites. Sorry.
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04-09-05, 07:46 AM	#18
klingens Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Xanadu	Yes some things need IE, but it's anything but due to a "standard". The only real reason ever for using IE is ActiveX, and if that's a standard then we really need a new Internet. I agree he might find IE better or more agreeable, there is no squabbling about taste. But talking about standards and IE in the same sentence needs negation on between to make it a true statement.
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04-09-05, 09:04 AM	#19
petteyg359 Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: University of Southern Mississippi	Specific example of requiring IE, and it's not because it's a M$ site (and it doesn't use ActiveX): Neveron.com... It's a battetech MMO(RP)G. Their site is only accessible through IE. They've had people exploit bugs on it before, and they fix them as they can, but due to differences in the way IE, Opera, Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape, etc. work, those things could be exploited differently with a different browser. They don't want to have to go through them all again just to support other browsers. __________________ MSI 890GXM-G65 - X6 1055T - 16GiB 10700 - 5850 1GiB - 7 Pro x64 / Gentoo amd64 - HX520 Dell XPS 15 L502x - i7 2760QM - 16GiB 12800 - GT 540M 2GiB - 7 Pro x64 / Gentoo amd64 - Agility 4 512GB [GB ≠ GiB] [MB ≠ MiB] [kB ≠ kiB] [1000 ≠ 1024] [Giga ≠ gram] [Mega ≠ milli] [Kelvin ≠ kilo] [Byte ≠ bit] "Apparently, Plaintiff believes that he could sue an egg company for fraud for labeling a carton of 12 eggs a “dozen,” because some bakers would view a “dozen” as including 13 items." - Western Digital 2006
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04-09-05, 09:08 AM	#20
Gnufsh Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: June Lake, California	Things that need ie generally do so because they break the standards (which can be found here: http://www.w3.org/) and use ie-specific things. I do have ie working under wine (I don't use it, so I don't know why). This thread over at the gentoo forums was very helpful in figuring it out: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-148168.html These may also be helpful (tools for configuring wine and installing some things like dcom98 and ie): http://www.von-thadden.de/Joachim/WineTools/ http://sidenet.ddo.jp/winetips/config.html __________________ Lost access to the classifieds? Look here. Forum Policies Sig Rules "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened." -Sir Winston Churchill
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