[TriLUG] Defeated by a website..

Knowles, Christopher cknowles at sumitomoelectric.com
Thu Dec 30 14:16:00 EST 2004


Have you looked at crossover Office?  (http://www.codeweavers.com/)

IE6 is listed as being "silver" which means it will run, but not flawlessly.  

There's even a trial of Crossover Office that you can try.

CJK

On Thursday 30 December 2004 02:12 pm, Brian Henning wrote:
> Hi guys,
>   Anyone have any luck running actual MSIE6 under Wine (or another Windows
> emulator)?  One of our technicians needs to access a website that demands
> real, honest-to-goodness IE6 (a masquerading Opera doesn't fool it).  The
> tech support folks for that web service are zero help ("can he get access
> to an IBM compatible machine? ...well it's not gonna run on linux"). 
> Needless to say, that's not a workable solution.
>
> So I really need IE6, it would seem.  Anyone have some experience with this
> sort of issue?  I'd also be very interested in a linux-native browser
> solution also (although I really don't know how they do their checking).
>
> The system is Debian Sarge.
>
> Thanks,
> ~Brian
>
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