On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 04:20 -0400, Mike McMullin wrote:
On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 10:59 +0800, Ray Chen wrote:
2010/3/16 John Meyer <pueblonative@opensuse.us>:
Has anybody been able to get ies4linux to work under OpenSuse 11.2 with the latest version of Wine? I'm getting an error on IEEXPLORE. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Use winetricks instead http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks I've installed ie6 in my openSUSE 11.2 system work fine
But why 6? Seriously, the latest IE is probably the one to install, not the mal-ware ready early versions.
There are reasons, and you don't have to actually have any examples to know there may, and probably are, _always_ reasons. You don't have to know them all, or even one, for them to exist. Here's one: I have an IP-KVM device which the manufacturer no longer produces nor supports. It contains a built-in web server which requires the client browser to be ie6 with activex enabled. In other browsers you can get to the front page but can actually do any of the critically important stuff you purchased, shipped, and installed the device for. Similarly, I have other network appliances that have web interfaces that require specifically old versions of java. Some you can fake by using a browser that lets you spoof the java version and other client id responses, some you can not spoof because the code actually doesn't work. Luckily in most cases the web interface is not strictly necessary as there is some form of text interface. But the kvm device only offers the web access. (There is a text interface but all that can do is basic config like setting the devices network settings) All closed source of course. No practical way to modify the code on the device. There may be countless reasons neither you nor I know for using any version of any software. Including old versions of bad software. It's not as simple as "It's old, it sucks, therefore you don't need it." Or, sure, if you want to make it that simple for me, you can buy my crappy old ipkvm for enough money to replace it with something current that works as well, and shipping, and installation labor by the hour plus travel plus some compensation for downtime... Maybe I only have one of those that cost $500 and would be $2000 to replace in-situ before all was done, or maybe I have 50 of them all over the country in protected facilities and a bunch of documentation and users that would all need to be updated... Or I guess you could pay a team of hackers to reverse-engineer the thing and write new firmware for it, or I guess you could pay the private investigator to hunt down all the employees of the manufacturer that originally worked on the thing and maybe one or more of them could be paid to update it without needing to reverse engineer... Or, I could just use ie6 in wine and be done with it. (Yes in this case I have and it happens to work well enough for this task to function. It'd be worth using a vm if wine didn't happen to work well enough.) Kids... -- bkw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org