Internet Explorer 6 on OS X (no virtualization)
Posted by Helper Monkey
Are you getting bored with the Mac’s lack of viruses? Well you may be in luck. It seems the folks at Microsoft have got a working beta version of the virus-friendly Internet Explorer 6 up and running on the Mac.
Sure, the font handling sucks, and it “flashes like it is repainting – a lot,â€? according to one post, but the fact remains someone over there spent the time to actually revisit those Win32 api’s and shoehorned them into something that would run on OS X, WITHOUT virtualization.
[EDIT] Apparently IE 6 is running on a beta of CrossOver Mac from CodeWeavers. This is not an actual Microsoft build of Internet Explorer.
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That is IE 6 running with the beta of Crossover on the mac. Not IE running natively on OS X.
Well, Crossover Mac uses the Darwine libraries, and is not an emulator when run on the new Intel Macs. In theory it runs Windows programs natively on X86 Macs (if the programs were compatible with Wine) .
So this is technically correct, it is not running in virtualization.
its virus freindly? the only good thing about IE 6 is the compatablity with “effects” and certain dhtml scripts, if IE 6 could handle transparent PNGs then i would think about using it
In crossover virus only attacks the current bottles, not the complete os
WHY, WHY ON EARTH WOULD ANYONE WANT TO USE THE WORST PIECE OF SOFTWARE MANKIND HAS EVER PRODUCED ON THE BEST AND MOST SECURE COMPUTER SOMEONE CAN HAVE? I just don’t get it…
Hi, It was me. I was bored
Any chance you could pull the image locally so you’re not chewing up all my bandwidth – it’s actually chewing up quite a bit? That’d be cool. Or you know maybe a link to my site or something?
Thanks
we’ll mirror it if you want
Why would someone want to run IE6 on OS X? Surely the reason is obvious… 90% of the world use IE6 as their primary browser and until that changes web developers will have to test sites in IE6. Do you get it now?…