Safari can't access some sites

My husband's work has a website they need to access to get info about the company. We only have my iMac at home, and I think the site is mainly compatible with Internet Explorer, which of course is not available to Macs anymore, or at least I know it doesn't work on mine (won't even open). Is there any way Safari can get a plug in or something to help him access his website? We keep getting the 404 error _file not found , or page not found.
The answer is probably no, which he is really upset about~why should he have to go buy a second computer just to access a work site, but maybe somewhere here has encountered a solution.
Thanks!
Susan

It sounds like this particular website has some issues.
But here's something that is sometimes useful: You can get a Developer's "Debug" menu to appear in Safari, and under this menu is an option to select "User Agent." This allows Safari to present itself as a different browser type -- including MS IE 6.0 for Windows. Of course, Safari is not really IE, and this won't make it act like IE, but if a server is rejecting your requests simply because of the browser it thinks you're using, then this might work.
Here's how to get the Debug menu to show: Open Applications > Utilities > Terminal.app. At the prompt, type exactly the following...
defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1
The next time you launch Safari, a Debug menu will appear to the right of the Help menu. If you decide you want to hide this menu in the future, open Terminal and type the same command with a zero at the end instead of a one...
defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 0
Note: If you change the User Agent, then in order to restore the default of "Automatically Chosen," you must close Safari and reopen it. (For additional information about this feature, see Apple Developer - Safari FAQ.)

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