wine and MS InternetExplorer

eculp eculp at encontacto.net
Wed Aug 13 13:27:40 UTC 2008


Quoting Adrian Penisoara <ady at freebsd.ady.ro>:

> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 3:46 AM, eculp <eculp at encontacto.net> wrote:
>> Is there any way to get MS Internet explorer to work under wine.  The
>> government here has some forms that require it and won't work with firefox
>> or opera.  The part that bothers me even more is that they seem to be
>> microsoft java apps.
>>
>> I see there is an iexplorer in the distribution and I added gecko support
>> but still couldn't get more that a transparent box.
>
>  There is the IEs4Linux project which theoretically could be used also
> on FreeBSD -- see the link below, follow the installation instructions
> and let us know what results you get.
>
>     http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/
>
>   Apparently there is no FreeBSD port for this at this time, but if it
> works for you then I guess it would make a really good candidate
> (especially for enterprise/office environments)

Thanks, Adrian.  I took a look at it yesterday but didn't have time to  
install it.  I'm downloading it now. It will be interesting to see if  
it is complete enough to work with the government's windows centric  
forms. I will post results to the list asap

Thanks again,

ed
>
> Regards,
> Adrian.
>



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