[cw-discuss] Internet Explorer on CX Mac

[Deano!]

Active X, AND the plethora (er, couple?) of sites streaming video/audio 
with the newly DRM'd Windows Media 10/11...

Of course, it'd be great to get those sites to standardize, and have a 
choose-your-own-client buffet of love, but when the practicality of 
one's situation comes down to "but I NEED IE", then those folks will 
just use Parallels (or VMWare, or Boot Camp), when they could have been 
using Crossover.

I think the "but the Mac has an equivalent" argument does* work well for 
a variety of apps (even Office!), but there is just something about 
Outlook and IE, and it would be great if some resources could be applied 
to getting them working sooner, rather than later. :/


Dameon Welch-Abernathy wrote:
> This was originally sent to me, but I think it's worth mentioning on 
> the list.
>
> On 9/5/06, Chris Mohler <cr33dog at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Mac has a built-in browser - Safari
>>
>> Firefox has a native version for Mac.
>>
>> What can IE do that those can't?
>
> One word: ActiveX.
>
> There is a particular web-based application I run that will run in
> nothing but Internet Explorer on Windows. I know it uses ActiveX
> compoents. It's not an "optional" web application, either, it's a
> critical tool I have no choice but to use it.
>
>> Just a suggestion (Not that I doubt the abilities of the CX engineers,
>> but getting IE running properly on a Mac seems not only *wrong*, but
>> time-consuming).
>
> My expectation is that CX Mac should support IE at least as well as CX
> Linux. Right now, it doesn't, and I consider that a problem.
>
> -- PhoneBoy
>
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