Is any way of viewing IE only sites in Safari?

Question

Hi guys
Will admit that I have had very little experience of Macs - do you know if there is any way of viewing IE only sites in Safari?
Is there a plugin that I can download? If so, can you advise the link please.
TIA

Answer 1

"do you know if there is any way of viewing IE only sites in Safari?"
In general if a web site has chosen to write and test their site only using Windows IE, or if they have chosen to use Microsoft proprietary technology (like Active X) there is nothing a non-Windows user can do except request the web site developers to support established web standards that support ALL platforms and browsers. Sometimes the web site will actually work with Safari but the web site blocks any browsers other than Windows. Safari can be made to present itself as Windows IE 6 to the web site. For a new user the simplest way to do this is to get the free OS X utility called Onyx. Using Onyx the user can turn on a hidden Safari menu called the "Debug" menu. From that menu the user can tell Safari to fake the web site into thinking it's taking to a Windows IE 6 browser. This is usually a hit-or-miss workaround. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. You could also try using a alternate browser like Firefox, Camino, Opera, and a number of other OS X compatible browsers. Again, sometimes they work, sometimes they don't work.
As a new Mac user it is very important for you to understand that the Safari browser is not defective, substandard, or limited. Safari is probably one of the best standards compliant browsers in existence. The problem lies with the fact that Windows IE doesn't follow the rules very well, responds to code differently than standards based browsers, tolerates errors much more than it should (which is one major reason for its security problems) and is totally tied to the Windows OS. Because 85% of the world uses Windows there are a lot of lazy web site developers that test their pages only with Windows IE. They don't care if their site doesn't work with anything else.
Don't ever believe these sites if they tell you that something is wrong with Safari. It's THEIR site that is not standards compliant. Tell them they need to support accepted web standards.
This, of course, doesn't solve the problem but you are not alone. OS X, Linux, Unix users all face the fact that some sites will simply not work with anything else than Windows IE. The 800 lb gorilla does what it wants, when it wants, to whoever it wants.
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