ies4osx: Run Internet Explorer on a Mac

 As any Mac user is painfully aware, there are still a lot of websites that don’t display properly or whose features don’t work unless you visit the site on a Windows PC running Microsoft Internet Explorer. Thankfully these types of sites seem to be dwindling in number, probably owing largely to Firefox’s growing market share, but as long as they persist Mac users have to find workarounds. I usually just click over to Parallels and fire up Windows when I need to access such a site. But a much quicker and less resource-intensive method has now appeared in the form of ies4osx, a simple installer that allows Internet Explorer to run inside X11 using WINE. This is virtually transparent to the user, however–you get an Internet Explorer icon in your Applications folder, and you just open it anytime you need to use IE.