Internet Explorer is the most popular web browser produced by Microsoft. It has a multitude of features including the ability to check for when sites have been updated last, to browse site's offline and supports cascading style sheets (CSS) positioning.

Internet Explorer 5.2.3 for Mac - Initial IE for mac versions were developed from the same code base as Internet Explorer for Windows, however later versions diverged, particularly with the release of version 5 which included the Tasman rendering engine. before IE was replaced by Apple owned Safari web browser, according to the five-year agreement between Apple and Microsoft in 1997, Internet Explorer was the default browser on Mac OS. Internet Explorer remained available for the Mac OS until January 31, 2006. No major updates had been released since March 27, 2000 aside from bug fixes and updates to take advantage of new features in Mac OS X.

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• OS requirements for Internet Explorer: OS: Mac OS X
• Minimum requirements:
  * Mac OS X version 10.1.5 or later
  * Apple QuickTime version 5.0.2 or later
  

Parallels Desktop for Mac - Parallels Desktop for Mac is a software product by Parallels, Inc. Initially, the software was released as "Parallels Workstation for Mac OS", consistent with the Linux and Windows versions.
Parallels Desktop for Mac is a hardware emulation virtualization software, using hypervisor technology that works by mapping the host computer's hardware resources directly to the virtual machine's resources, allowing each virtual machine to operate identically to a standalone computer. Each virtual machine effectively has its own processor, RAM, floppy and CD drives, I/O devices, and hard disk, essentially all the resources of a physical computer.

VMware Fusion
VMware Fusion can make you launch Windows applications from any Mac file, the Dock, and more. Minimize Windows applications to the Dock and switch between Windows and Mac applications with Expose.

CrossOver Free Trial - When you're running a Mac OS X machine, you need a way to run at least some Windows applications or games that aren't available on your platform of choice. In a nutshell, you have three main choices:

• Dual-booting: running two separate operating systems on one PC, and switching between them as needed by rebooting. Applications such as Apple's Bootcamp allow this to occur on a Mac OS X machine, for example.
• Running Wine or CrossOver: Unlike emulation, Wine is a re-implementation of the Win32 API, allowing applications to run as if natively on the target OS. CrossOver is a commercialized version of Wine.
• Running a virtual machine: Emulation products such as VMware and Parallels allow you to run a full version of the Windows OS inside a program running on your native operating system. The Windows applications essentially run in a separate "box within a box."

Run IE6 on Mac OSX (WINE)

1. Used the installer script from IEs4Linux.

2. Resolving its dependencies, it should run through the IE6 installation.

3. WINE can be obtained from here

4.Installed cabextract using DarwinPorts

ies4osx - a Mac port of the ies4linux package. Built on top of the Darwine version of the Wine Win32 API translation layer, ies4osx downloads and installs an official version of IE (you pick from v5, 5.5, 6 or 7) and then runs it inside the X11 environment on your Mac.

5. Vmware v.s Parallel - Internet Explorer Speed Test
MacTech created a large, complex page in HTML served from a local LAN server using common HTML elements and no JavaScript. VMware Fusion took significantly longer across the board, so they removed the results from the overall analysis to avoid it skewing the results. In general, Parallels was more than 80% faster in XP and Vista both with and without SSL.