Re: [SLUG] IE running on Linux - Suggestions

[Phil Scarratt <fil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Adam W wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> One of the biggest factors of me crossing over to full time linux, at
> work and at home is the ability to run IE(please no flames). I just get
> really frustrated going to websites that run perfectly on IE, and seeing
> them all jumbled up on opera/mozilla or whatever because they don't
> support HALF the amount of functions IE has implemented e.g go to
> ninemsn.com.au, www.msn.com, www.microsoft.com sorry cant remember any
> non-ms sites :).

This is not intended to be a flame, I can sympathise - there are a LOT 
of websites out there written for IE and not HTML. In spite of that I 
use Netscape 7, which seems to work OK for me.

I read an article not too long ago that detailed a situation where one 
of the MSN sites was feeding the Opera browser something different to 
what it fed IE, so as to deliberately make them look stuffed, even 
though copying the files fed to IE and looking at them with Opera worked 
fine. Just another fine example of M$ strategy...I'll see if I can dig 
up the article....

It was a reference on another article I read (rather long but 
interesting read) http://www.aaxnet.com/editor/edit029.html. The Opera 
thing is http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/29219.html and 
http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2003/02/14/

> I have been messing around with running IE using WINE, but after I got
> past a couple SHLWAPI.DLL not found and the like, when I run 'wine
> iexplore.exe' it just thinks for a bit and then returns to the prompt...
>
> I have had a peep at crossover office/plugin - how well does this work??
> I am really only looking to get IE running nicely. I don't want to spend
> my US$60 to find that it works for most, but not for me. It's a real
> pitty they don't have a demo release! Or not one that I can find!
>
> Maybe someone can suggest another way of running IE?? I don't want to
> run any sort of VM - I just want to run a single app.
>
> A contributing factor to wine not working for me I think is the fact
> that I run win2k on the other partition I was trying to run IE off -
> everyone posting on the wine forums seemed to be running win95/98
> flavours.
>
> BTW, I'm running MDK9.0, 1Ghz PIII-M, 256MB RAM - power shouldn't be a
> problem.
>
> Any appropriate suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Cheers
>
> AW.


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Phil Scarratt
Draxsen Technologies