vanja Posted April 3, 2006 Share Posted April 3, 2006 I've been fooling around with Q, Wintel and Darwine -- everything in order to get IE6 working on my Mac, so I don't have to reboot every once in a while when working on websites. Darwine is most elegant by far, at least memory consuming etc so it would be really great to have it working... Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mb2 Posted April 3, 2006 Share Posted April 3, 2006 it'd be great from a proof of concept idea.. but why on *earth* would u want IE6 on osX?! whats wrong with opera or firefox?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanja Posted April 3, 2006 Author Share Posted April 3, 2006 If u were more careful with reading my post, u'd see that i need it for web development. So I want IE6 running exactly because it is a *bad browser*. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sesquipedalian Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 Um, you should be able to find a native Mac copy of Internet Explorer in your applications folder. It is probably version 5, not 6, but I expect it would work alright. It should be the same engine, after all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ibookster Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 If u were more careful with reading my post, u'd see that i need it for web development. So I want IE6 running exactly because it is a *bad browser*. sorry but IE 5 for mac is nowhere near IE 6.0 for PC. In my case I would need IE for checking layouts... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonny_T Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 Sad fact but true (IIRC) - IE 5 for the Mac is more standards compliant (yet still woefully {censored} poor) than IE 6 for the PC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swad Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 Yeah vanja, you're right - for comliance checking you've got to have the real thing. Have you considered parallels? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanja Posted April 11, 2006 Author Share Posted April 11, 2006 @ibookster U sure u quoted right person? I've never mentioned IE5:Mac because development for it has stopped and there is no reason to develop web for that browser. IE6 is still most used browser and that is what i need.... @Mashugly I tried Q. After two hours of installing, I gave up. I only have 512 MB of RAM. Downloading now Parallels and will see if it is less resources thirsty... Darwine would be still most elegant solution since it uses far less system resources... Dreamweaver, Photoshop and another OS emulator is such a system killer combination! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sportman Posted April 14, 2006 Share Posted April 14, 2006 I am waiting on the next release of darwine b4 I make any attempts at this. I tried breifly but then was informed that the current darwine release has a network problem. So hopefully once that issue is fixed we can get started on this. I am currently trying to get together a list of frameworks and dlls that will help. Maybee if you join me in the #darwine channel on irc.macspeak.net we can get some work done. Thanks, Sportman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanja Posted April 14, 2006 Author Share Posted April 14, 2006 I tried copying really whole bunch of stuff from the real windows into darwine drive and always get the same error. I think it is good to aim running IE even on this release. When next release is out we have working solution. Will join u on irc, although do not have much experience with irc so give me few days to find software for irc etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sportman Posted April 15, 2006 Share Posted April 15, 2006 for irc you can get xchat aqua there is a link on http://wiki.osx86project.org under the x86 application section, irc.macspeak.net is the server and teh port is 6667. Look forward to working with you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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