However, there is no active development on the older native installers for Mac OS. There are also older projects that you can try out, but this seems to be the most practical way to do it. Opening web pages to test glitches and errors is very easy thanks to the familiar layout of Internet Explorer. This is why virtual machines are used as a way to overcome the lack of active development for the Operating System. Mac users will probably be most familiar with Parallels as it offers seamless integration with MacOS. Microsoft has created virtual machines for VMWare, Vagrant, VirtualBox, Hyper V, and of course, Parallels. These are Internet Explorer 8, Internet Explorer 9, Internet Explorer 10, and Internet Explorer 11. This is aimed at developers that wish to test features in older browsers, but theres nothing stopping you from running it as a user. Mac Internet Explorer works just as you would expect, and it does a good job at rendering websites and basic navigation. IE for windows (ALL versions) uses a completely different rendering engine called Trident.whereas ie5mac (and that alone) uses Tasman.ĭesktop Sign in Create account Categories Desktop Internet Explorer 5.2.3 2.8 Home Internet Utilities Browsers Internet Explorer Internet Explorer 5.2.3 16 October 2019 Microsoft Web browser for Mac OS X.įor this reason, you can now download Internet Explorer for Mac OS X, and its free.

Hopefully all the Microsoft folks are busy getting macro support back into Office:) (0) 1 G4ff3r 01 November 2007 Version: 5.2.3 Why use this at all You may be under the impression that by viewing sites using ie5mac, youre viewing them as windows IE viewers are. No major updates had been released since Maaside from bug fixes and updates to take advantage of new features in Mac OS X. Internet Explorer remained available for the Mac OS until January 31, 2006.

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