Web Page only works with IE on Windows machine?

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I am an MD working at a local hospital which uses McKesson’s Horizon WP Physician Portal to allow access to medical information over the web. It does not work in any of my Mac browsers (Safari, Camino, Firefox, Netscape, IE) and they say they are not supported. They told me this before with the previous product and still tell me that about the Citrix servers they use, however I have been using these for a couple of years, having figured them out myself.
This time I am stuck. Anybody there know why it doesn’t work? I get to the secure web page, and it briefly flashes in my window, looking just the way it should, but immediately disappears, leaving a blank window. Below find the code from the page. Maybe it is an implementation of Java that is a little off, or another example of Microsoft (via IE) violating HTML and other conventions? Any help is appreciated.
I noted the discussion on this forum about Ative X - could that be the culprit here? Can you tell from the code below?
Geoff Renk
Charleston, SC
Because it is a secure site with protected helathcare info I have changed the URL to XXXX in the code below.
<!-- Define the ATL object -->
<OBJECT ID="objSharedSessionServiceID" CLASSID="clsid:04B6290C-97B8-49A1-B0A3-1312254F7C54" CODEBASE="/portal/applets/SharedSession.dll#Version=10,0,0,1" HEIGHT="0" WIDTH="0">
</OBJECT>
<script language="javascript">
objSharedSessionServiceID.SetJoinNameOrNumber(objSharedSessionServiceID.GetIPAdd ress(''));
objSharedSessionServiceID.SetListenPort( '7576' );
objSharedSessionServiceID.SetAppName('portal' );
</script>
<script language="javascript">
objSharedSessionServiceID.SeedIdentifier("# Shared Session Properties\r\n# Generated by HorizonWP Portal via sss.jsp\r\n# Mon Aug 28 10:08:14 EDT 2006\r\nSessionIdentifier=9bbe68:10d482e76fd:-79c4.172.20.26.46\r\nurl=https:// XXXXXXXXXX.com:443/sharedSession/servlet/rpcrouter\r\n")
var y = "https://XXXXXXXXXXX.com:443/portal/site/hpp/index.jsp?setSessionId=" + objSharedSessionServiceID.GetIPAddress('') + "|" + objSharedSessionServiceID.Locate();
location.replace(y);
</script>
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Answer 1

Web Page has ActiveX language, not supported on MacOS