Judging from the above screenshot, which displays the 4sysops Website rendered in a WineBottled instance of Internet Explorer 7, the user interface is nowhere near as pretty (or as functional) as it is in native Microsoft Windows. To run Internet Explorer, navigate to your previously specified installation location and simply launch Internet Explorer. After installation completes, you are ready to rock. You will be prompted for an installation location (I suggest the Applications folder), after which then the virtualized IE installation will proceed.ģ. Next, select the desired Internet Explorer version from the list.
Open WineBottler and select Install Predefined Prefixes from the left-hand navigation bar.
Download WineBottler and drag both Wine and WineBottler to your Mac’s Applications folder.Ģ.
Here is the high-level procedure to get WineBottler and IE up and running on your Mac OS X system:ġ. As of this writing, WineBottler includes built-in “ prefixes” (basically virtualized applications) that support local installation of several Windows applications, including Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer 7, and Internet Explorer 8. WineBottler is a Mac tool based upon Wine that provides for the easy installation of Windows application on Mac OS X. Wine, short for Wine Is Not an Emulator, is a GPL-licensed Mac application that relies upon X11 and allows Microsoft Windows applications to run under non-Microsoft operating systems. Let’s get to work! Free Method: WineBottler ^ After all, sometimes the most reliable solution incurs financial outlay.
I will also give you some IE-on-Mac methods that involve additional cost. The first solution is free, but may have variable long-term success for you, depending upon a variety of factors.
Unless your Windows comes with an older version and you want to update it.Except that Windows comes with Internet Explorer, so there's no reason to download it.And you can run it in a virtual machine running Windows.You can't run IE for Windows (or Pocket IE for Windows Mobile) on Mac OS X.
And IE for Mac is actually far less like IE7 for Windows than any modern browser is.You also can't legally download IE for Mac from anywhere anymore (except as part of old versions of OS X).If you have an ancient Mac, and it's running 10.2 or 10.3 rather than 10.4, it already has IE (and if you want to reinstall it, it's part of the OS X install), so there's no reason to download IE.You can't run IE for Mac on any modern Mac.There are many reasons it may not make sense to download Internet Explorer onto a Mac, and also many reasons why it might. Make sure to enable IE quirks mode, and set the user agent to pretend to be IE7 for Windows, and you should be golden.īut for the question you actually asked, there is no blanket answer to this that could possibly be correct.
Opera, on the other hand, works hard to be able to emulate the quirks of all of the important browsers. Of course in the case of bugs and quirks that are still present in later versions of IE, they'll do a perfect job of emulating IE7, but for bugs that were fixed, that's not a particularly important focus. Wine will mostly work, but it can be fiddly to configure, and may crash and/or have visual glitches that don't happen with real Windows if you really want to get serious about that you may want to look at Crossover.īut the next best way to test IE7 for Windows is actually Opera. Of course it's much more convenient, and almost certainly good enough, to run Windows in a VM under OS X via Parallels, VMware, etc. Or buy a used $99 Windows box and borrow the Mac's keyboard/mouse/etc. Just because you have a Mac doesn't mean you can't do that. The best way to test something with IE7 for Windows is to use IE7 for Windows.