Final Resolution: Back to XP for the in-laws
June 15, 2007
Thanks to all who tried to help.
My wife and I finally got IEs4Linux installed on the Mac Mini, to no avail. Even though IE itself worked, the website my mother-in-law uses was a no-go. The worst part—even though the site does work with IEs4Linux on Ubuntu, it doesn’t have all the features she wants (ones supported by only IE 7).
We tried to install IE 7 on Windows and realized their copy of Windows wasn’t “genuine.” So they’re going to buy a genuine copy of Windows… all for a badly coded IE-only website. That one website prevented migrations to Mac and/or Ubuntu. That one website. So they’re going to keep the Mac Mini and do just about everything (music, pictures, most internet, email) on it, and then have a fresh Windows install… for one website. This is a sad day.
Edit: My mother-in-law is not alone, apparently. Check out Mac Marginalization: Real Estate and the MLXchange FAQ:
Can MLXchange be used on a Macintosh Computer?
With PC emulators like Virtual PC, MLXchange can be made to work on a Mac. However, Macs are not supported by Interealty.
Here’s a weird link, where a Fedora user couldn’t get the website working under IEs4Linux without a workaround. As far as I could tell, IEs4Linux was working with the site… but not with the full functionality and all the fancy features, though.
Glad I’m not a realtor.
