Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 10:09:10 +0700 From: Roger Merritt <mcrogerm@stjohn.ac.th> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IE in FreeBSD? Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.0.20050915100130.00a9d190@127.0.0.1> In-Reply-To: <6B61D7B4-F0DA-4ACD-80CC-03F30B26704C@u.washington.edu> References: <4328D614.2080207@computer.org> <200509142330.10546.yuanjue122@gmail.com> <a87eda320509140846723c85ad@mail.gmail.com> <200509142355.26230.yuanjue122@gmail.com> <20050914163237.GA88210@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <4328D614.2080207@computer.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
At 19:22 14/9/2005 -0700, Garret Cooper wrote: >On Sep 14, 2005, at 7:01 PM, Eric Schuele wrote: > >>Roland Smith wrote: >> >>>On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 11:55:25PM +0800, Yuan Jue wrote: >>> >>>>On Wednesday 14 September 2005 23:46, Matt Kosht wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>>Does anybody successfully run Internet Explorer under Wine in >>>>>>FreeBSD? >>>>>>What should I do to get it run? Any suggestion will be >>>>>>appreciated. >>>>> >>>>>I would suggest instead of Wine using an RDP client (rdesktop in >>>>>ports >>>>>for example) and run IE via terminal services on a Windows >>>>>server or >>>>>XP desktop PC. >>>> >>>>Thanks. >>>>It is a way to solve this problem. But my particular problem is I >>>>do not have a Windows server or XP desktop PC around. My laptop >>>>is the only computer I have. So is there any other suggestion? >>>You mean apart from dumping IE and using firefox? ;-) >>>Install windoze on a virtual machine on your FreeBSD laptop. You >>>could >>>use bochs or qemu. The latter is probably faster. >> >>I'll second the qemu vote. It works very well. >> >>You don't mention *why* you need IE. Stating why might help >>someone provide a better alternative. > > The reason why I can see using IE is the ridiculous requirement >made by many software vendors and website designers that custom >tailor their content to use either ActiveX (Valve's CS and CS:S for >example) or certain features only available in IE, or they are just >plain lazy and don't want to make their content Mozilla friendly. >-Garrett I don't think you mean "Mozilla friendly", I think you mean "according to accepted standards." I would be suspicious of anyone selling software who was too unaware of web standards to follow standards in their web site (well, I would except someone who used tables rather than CSS to lay out a page -- I can forgive that). Frankly, there are so many web sites offering information I need that I don't really have time to worry about those sites that require IE. I'm already suffering overload. -- Roger
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?5.2.0.9.0.20050915100130.00a9d190>