[TriLUG] Defeated by a website..

[Scott G. Hall]

I can attest to IE6 running in CrossOver Office 3.0.1 just fine.  In
fact, you cannot install MS Office (2001 or XP) without it.  Just do
not install the updates that it insists on.  Also, a lot of "Active-X"
stuff does not work, but you don't want it to.  Note that IE6 under
CrossOver Office is "safer" than in MS Windows, since a great chunk
of the security holes become useless under WINE.

I have a similar problem -- I need to test websites for compatibility
with MSIE after developing them to standards, and I was maintaining an
old Win-98 system just for that.  But on this system that I posting
with now, MSIE behaves the same under CrossOver as it does under Win-98,
and so I can test for compatibility issues without switching platforms.
You can also put Mozilla and MSIE windows side by side to see the
differences.

The only caveat is font rendering.  I found that you want to install
all of MS-Office's fonts under CrossOver Office, and then follow the
instructions in the OpenOffice docs that describe copying them to make
them visible to OpenOffice and X-Windows.  Side benefit is that when
testing sites that call for Microsoft fonts, Mozilla and others will
be able to render with them directly.  Note that Star Office comes
with more fonts than OpenOffice, so I combined MS-Office's set and
Star Office's set so that both have all fonts, and then hard-linked
OpenOffice's font directory to Star Office's font directory.  It is
nice to see some websites rendered in the Bitstream fonts over MS's.
Another side benefit is that Adobe renders PDF's calling for Microsoft
fonts more correctly, and you loose the font problems when editing
docs in OpenOffice that are then pulled up in MS Office.

On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 14:16:00 -0500, "Knowles, Christopher"
    <cknowles at sumitomoelectric.com> wrote:
> Have you looked at crossover Office?  (http://www.codeweavers.com/)
> IE6 is listed as being "silver" which means it will run, but not
> flawlessly.  There's even a trial of Crossover Office that you can try.
> 
> CJK
> 
> On Thursday 30 December 2004 02:12 pm, Brian Henning wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>   Anyone have any luck running actual MSIE6 under Wine (or another Windows
>> emulator)?  One of our technicians needs to access a website that demands
>> real, honest-to-goodness IE6 (a masquerading Opera doesn't fool it).  The
>> tech support folks for that web service are zero help ("can he get access
>> to an IBM compatible machine? ...well it's not gonna run on linux"). 
>> Needless to say, that's not a workable solution.
>>
>> So I really need IE6, it would seem.  Anyone have some experience with this
>> sort of issue?  I'd also be very interested in a linux-native browser
>> solution also (although I really don't know how they do their checking).
>>
>> The system is Debian Sarge.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> ~Brian
>

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Scott G. Hall
Raleigh, NC, USA
ScottGHall at BellSouth.Net