Internet Explorer 5.5
 

I need Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher... any thoughts???

Sure, Internet Explorer for Mac only goes as high as 5.2.3
IE 5.2 is no longer supported or available from Microsoft (see here), but you can still download it from here

IE 5.5 or higher is avalible only on Windows OS.

Here's a thought - Don't ever use Internet Explorer...EVER! Apart from being the worst and primitive browser ever, it just pales in comparason to either Safari or Camino (which is the one i use) BUT if you insist on using IE, you can get 5.2.3 from here or just search somewhere for 5.5. (if your really craving 5.5 or higher, let me know and i'll post link :) )

EDIT: Just realized that tbsingleton is right...no such 5.5 on mac duh...

trumpet_999,

Your link to IE 5.2.3; while it takes you to the macupdate site, their download link points to Microsoft which no longer has the file.
Check out the link I posted above, it points to a site which hosts the IE file themselves.

quite true old chap! you win this round in the annual 'link-accuracy-deathmatch' forum... see you in system either in this world or the next! Dev-null!!!! :) :)

if you want to mascarade as IE 5.5.... (to get into certain websites) then iCab will let you do that.

what is iCab?? i will go and try it, thanks...

iCab is a Mac only browser. Note though that some sites state IE 5.5 and above and don't list any Mac browsers... Many of thenm do that because their site uses items such as ActiveX Controls which are windows only. So mascarading as IE 5.5 may not do the trick either.

do a google for it..... its a really nice little browser, in the prefs you can change its 'identity'.

My Bank didn't support Safari... so I got into their site with iCab pretending to be IE 5.5....! I wrote their tech support an email from within their site and told them what I had done..... I got a phone call within minutes from their web dev team wanting to know what iCab was!!! (they now support Safari!!)

I know it can be time consuming but everytime I come across a website that does not support a Mac browser I email or call them and explain the issue.

A few times I have had to ask to be transferred to a supervisor to argue for Mac support and I can say now that all sites that I have called now support Safari...

If you don't complain they have no reason to change the way they do business online.

You can masquerade as IE 6.0 with Safari if you enable the debug menu (http://www.macosxhints.com/article.p...30110063041629). Same issue though with sites that use ActiveX as Raven pointed out.

the problem is, I cannot use fonts and graphics in my email - yahoo and hotmail - the icab is getting me in, but i still can't actually use the rich text and graphics etc... yahoo tell me i can only do it through IE 5.5+, so does that mean I can never use anything other than basic email on a mac??? any thoughts????

If you use FireFox browser you can use those features you want in Yahoo Mail. At least it works for me.

i use firefox, it doesnt work - what am i doing wrong??

Check the "General Preferences" under Options in Yahoo Mail.
There is a Mode selection there to either pick "Compose messages as color and graphics" or "Compose messages as plain text".
Make sure the fisrt one is picked.
I'm also using the lastest version of FireFox 1.5.0.1

[note] I was able to fool yahoo into think I was using IE 5.5 or higher using the debug menu in Safari. And it would so the options to change font and color and bold, etc, but it would not actually do anything. You're better off using FireFox with mail.yahoo.com[/note]

no, i have tried this (options, mail preferences etc) and it doesn't change anything... i also have the latest firefox 1.5.0.1, and i still cant use mail graphics...

On a side note on this... I think the user agent switch is a great idea.. They just still need to work out how sites are rendered when using that feature as it can basically deface the appearance of sites in your browser... But I do love going to sites such as this one: scan.sygate.com and having my Mac scanned just to find out that it thinks I'm running IE 6 on Win2k ;)

Actually, you shouldn't use fonts and graphics in email. Doesn't belong there. Email is a text-only format, meaning that of the hundreds of email clients out there, only some of them make any attempt to render that stuff and the rest see something very different from what you thought you were sending out.

Wouldn't you rather send stuff out knowing that recipients will see pretty much what you intended to send them?

If you want to do fonts and graphics, compose a letter in a word processor and then print to PDF and attach it as a file attachment.

True to a point. But I think it looks more professional being able to use basic fonts, I cannot even show my email address in the typical 'blue' colour that is easily spotted in an email. I guess is just me being fussy, but it is frustrating - and unfair - that these luxuries are not as easily accessable on Macs as they are on PC's. Of course, I'd still go for a Mac over PC every time, so I guess I will just have to be patient.
If anyone has any more thoughts...

One thing about the blue underlining... This depends mostly on the system that receive's the mail. if the user has disabled or changed this feature, the links won't appear as you set them.

I use Mail and am able to have my email address show like you want.
I have a nice signature with a clickable mail link and company website link.
Seems more a limitation of Yahoo or Hotmail with Mac, than Mac itself.

It only looks more professional to you--given the nature of email it may very well look like garbage to your recipient.

The point AHunter is making is this: Email is natively text only. While some email clients have added html interpreting capability (and maybe other methods) in an attempt to get past text only, you have no real control over how your recipients' client reads it.

In email, you're much better off getting by with text-only type setting methods.

LIKE ALL CAPS (SPARINGLY PLEASE) FOR EMPHASIS

- a dash or
* an asterisk for a bullet point

-----------------------------------------
long lines of hyphens to divide logical sections

It may look less professional, but nothing like mail client-mangled attempts at real typesetting.

And in a related point, NEVER USING I.E. Nobody should ever reward Web sites that design only for this non-compliant, piece of crap browser. Send the Web site's support staff an email stating plainly your regrets that they design for only some people, and find another site. IE is only the way it is because Microsoft wanted to bully everyone with another Embrace and Extend assault. Such sheer gall of trying to dominate Internet practices with their own proprietary garbage. That behavior should be punished not rewarded. IE must die. Cloaking as IE is almost as bad because the site does not lose traffic and never finds out how evil and lazy they are being.

Then never take a look at IncrediMail :) I think its the wrose one, competing head to head with Outlook and Outlook Express with the extra tool bars and pluggin crap to add smily faces, emoctions, animated gifs, horribly huge backgrounds that make the emails take an eternity to load and then cause you don't have the same software the text is messed up... As others stated.. If you have a very nice document with pictures and such to pass on, better to just have an email that states FWI and what the doc refers to and attach it. That way your pretty sure, especially if your sending a PDF, that the other person will see exactly what you want them to and not what their computer interprets.

so your using a debug menu to fool it or it's just wrong? It scanned mine fine:

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c2...t_999/scan.jpg

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When using an Agent... Not standard...
Example: User agent selected is Windows MSIE 6.0 and Stealth mode is on

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Trying to gather information from your web browser...

Operating System = Windows NT 5.2
Browser = Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0

Trying to find out your computer name...

Unable to determine your computer name!


Trying to find out what services you are running...

Unable to detect any running services!
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Neat ain't it ?