ie only websites PLEASE HELPP!!!

[beeeners1012]

i having been using a couple different linux versions for a while now. i have been able to navigate them and figure it our pretty easily. but my problem is that i know nothing about directories or writing code or anything like that. im a networker. i deal with hardware and some software. so please explain carefully your answers to my next question.

there are some websites that can only be viewed in IE. i NEED!! to access these sites on my laptop. i have found some info for placing scripts here or there and placing links and such i dont understand it!! please help!! there has to be something i can install under wine or something!!!

[zombykillah]

Well the problem is that there are many different possibilities to get that incompatibility ...
One is to use active-x objects.

Well anyway sorry I can't help you, best way to deal with this would be to change the page scripts.

[hatebreed]

I think he is trying to access a site that uses activex, not his own website. You will probably have to use internet explorer through wine, which i have had bad luck with. try it out and post back.

[MASONTX]

I haven't used IE in about 6 years. I use firefox and have never run into a site that won't display. My browsing needs are confined to computer parts sites, ebay, this forum, yahoo mail, etc., so may not have come across the issue.

[jayd512]

As far as I know, if a site actually requires IE to view it properly, then there's not really a way around it.
Sites like that recognize the browser being used, and render them accordingly.

hatebreed has the right idea for that, in using IE via wine.

[hatebreed]

i have run into a site or two that wouldn't work properly because of the .asp, I believe that is the extension, that microsoft uses. It wouldn't render all the portions of the site correctly, so you couldn't use the site.

[Roxoff]

It does depend on how desperate you are to get access to those sites - I think you have a number of options, of which Wine is probably the one you go for first. You could also try the virtual machine route, setting up a Windows XP VM on your laptop. You could also get hold of a cheap second hand computer/laptop/netbook or whatever that'll do the job.