How do I add add’l browsers to my list. It is only showing Safari and I need at least IE. Is there a free download. I am a mac user.
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Hi Joe,
I assume you want to add browsers to the Freeway Preview menu.
Click on > File > Preview in Browser > Browser setup > New > and navigate to other browsers, you have added to your applications folder. Like Firefox etc.
On 7 Nov 2007, at 17:03, Joe wrote:
How do I add add’l browsers to my list. It is only showing Safari and I need at least IE. Is there a free download. I am a mac user.
Thanks.
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Thanks for answering David. I guess I didn’t make it clear enough. When I open the Browser setup> , it only shows Safari. When I click on New>, I do not have IE in my applications folder. I have tried to download IE on my mac but have not installed the *.exe since I am not sure what to do. Currently I do not have IE on my mac. I would assume I need to get IE on my mac to get it in the New> box. How do I do that?
Thanks for your assistance.
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If you have an exe file then it’s for a pc and not a Mac. I’m not sure you can still get IE for the Mac, but I’m sure that someone more knowledgeable than me will let you know.
On 7 Nov 2007, at 17:29, Joe wrote:
I have tried to download IE on my mac but have not installed the *.exe since I am not sure what to do.
On 7 Nov 2007, at 17:29, Joe wrote:
Thanks for answering David. I guess I didn’t make it clear
enough. When I open the Browser setup> , it only shows Safari.
When I click on New>, I do not have IE in my applications folder.
I have tried to download IE on my mac but have not installed the
*.exe since I am not sure what to do.
Ignore it; .exe means a Windows application which you can’t use.
Currently I do not have IE on my mac. I would assume I need to get
IE on my mac to get it in the New> box. How do I do that?
Internet Explorer for the Mac is now redundant, and unsupported, and
pretty much useless. It’s a browser that has next to no users, and
you don’t need it to review sites with. The only way to use Internet
Explorer to check sites, unfortunately, is on the Windows platform.
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On 7 Nov. 2007, 4:29 pm, Joe wrote:
Thanks for answering David. I guess I didn’t make it clear enough. When I open the Browser setup> , it only shows Safari. When I click on New>, I do not have IE in my applications folder. I have tried to download IE on my mac but have not installed the *.exe since I am not sure what to do. Currently I do not have IE on my mac. I would assume I need to get IE on my mac to get it in the New> box. How do I do that?
Thanks for your assistance.
Joe
Depending on which version of Mac OS X you are running, you probably won’t be able to install Explorer at all. Microsoft end-of-lifed it quite some time ago, and I don’t think it will run on any current version of the OS. I am certain that the only place you could download it would be the Browser Archive: http://browsers.evolt.org/
Plus, if what you have really ends in .exe, then it’s a Windows application. So you would need to run Parallels or VMWare or similar on an Intel Mac, or the older versions of Virtual PC on a (very speedy) PPC Mac, plus an entire copy of Windows, etc.
There really isn’t such a thing as Explorer Mac any more.
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Thank you all for your responses. I really appreciate it.
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You can’t run IE on OSX - but there are online services like
http://ipinfo.info/netrenderer/
where you can view your site as the PC world see it.
On 7 Nov 2007, at 17:29, Joe wrote:
Thanks for answering David. I guess I didn’t make it clear enough. When I open the Browser setup> , it only shows Safari. When I click on New>, I do not have IE in my applications folder. I have tried to download IE on my mac but have not installed the *.exe since I am not sure what to do. Currently I do not have IE on my mac. I would assume I need to get IE on my mac to get it in the New> box. How do I do that?
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Just to add to this thread, Joe, it is most important you test your web sites on a Windows version browser as they tend to behave slightly differently to Mac versions. This applies especially to non-CSS sites, where havoc is often caused to the spacing of your carefully crafted panels of copy. (Always, even with the blue CSS button on in Freeway, be generous with any area devoted to type matter if you want avoid problems).
If you can’t do this yourself, you should be able to find someone unfortunate enough to be a PC user who can take a look for you. If they are fairly computer savvy, they can email you screen shots of anything that looks bad.
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Sometime around 7/11/07 (at 12:40 -0500) waltd said:
Depending on which version of Mac OS X you are running, you probably
won’t be able to install Explorer at all. Microsoft end-of-lifed it
quite some time ago, and I don’t think it will run on any current
version of the OS.
Internet Explorer 5.2, the final Mac version, was a Carbon
application, so it will run in Intel Macs and, I believe, even in
Leopard. But it is dead, buried, and the corpse is essentially mulch
by now.
It does NOT help you know how things will look in IE on Windows in
any way. It always was an entirely different codebase from the
Windows releases of Internet Explorer, and it is laughably out of
date as well. It is seven years since it was last updated!
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On 8 Nov 2007, at 10:04, Keith Martin wrote:
It does NOT help you know how things will look in IE on Windows in
any way.
Did you mean to say that Keith?
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Sometime around 8/11/07 (at 11:13 +0000) Paul Bradforth said:
Did you mean to say that Keith?
Looking at web pages in Internet Explorer for Mac does not give you
any realistic idea of how things will look in Internet Explorer for
Windows.
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It never did. At one point, the Mac version of IE was far better that it Windows counterpart. Now it’s far worse and will give you a false sense of panic.
You need Windows for web site checking in Explorer.
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On 8 Nov 2007, at 11:24, Keith Martin wrote:
Looking at web pages in Internet Explorer for Mac does not give you
any realistic idea of how things will look in Internet Explorer for
Windows.
I understand. But what you said was:
It does NOT help you know how things will look in IE on Windows in
any way.
… which sounds as though you’re telling people they don’t have to
check what it looks like on Windows, no?
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I understood it, first time out. But then, Keith and I share the same
mother language 
The understood subject “It” is “IE Mac” – therefore “It (IE Mac) does
NOT help you (to) know (predict) how things will look in IE on Windows
(IE Windows) in any way.”
Paul Bradforth wrote:
I understand. But what you said was:
It does NOT help you know how things will look in IE on Windows in
any way.… which sounds as though you’re telling people they don’t have to
check what it looks like on Windows, no?
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On 8 Nov 2007, at 16:54, Ernie Simpson wrote:
Of course. I didn't read 'it' as meaning 'ie Mac', I read it as 'There is no advantage to knowing how it will look on Windows'. You can be as clever as you like writing stuff and someone will always get it wrong. Sorry Keith :-)I understood it, first time out. But then, Keith and I share the same
mother languageThe understood subject “It” is “IE Mac” – therefore “It (IE Mac) does
NOT help you (to) know (predict) how things will look in IE on Windows
(IE Windows) in any way.”
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