Web Developers who use a Mac, as well as the just-plain-curious, will be happy to know that they can install multiple versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer on their Apple computers without springing for Parallels. Open source utility ies4osx gets the job done with a surprisingly minimal amount of effort.
While it is novel, ies4osx appears to be not much more than a cool toy. I installed all four versions of IE that were offered, and they all ran extremely slow. I tested the software on a Mac Pro, which should not have trouble running any sort of application, especially not a few aged Web browsers.
Running ies4osx will be useful for testing the occasional site, but it is not very practical for heavy use. I suppose that doesn’t really matter though — who would really want to use IE on a Mac anyway?
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