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by 5hoom 5348 days ago
You forgot this bit in the technical requirements:

-PC or MAC with internet connection

-Web Browser (Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 is recommended)

So... they mean a (pretty old) PC with internet connection then?

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There was an IE for Unix. So there's some HPUX boxes that could have been running some version of IE. I have no idea what version it got to. I have never met anyone who used it.
Thanks for the info, didn't know that.

According to wikipedia, the project was discontinued as late as 2002. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_for_UNIX

Hey now, there's Microsoft Internet Explorer for Mac. Supports high-quality (broken) CSS1, y'know.
I stand corrected and humbly defer to your knowledge of horrible browsers ;)
Not IE 6. Mac stopped at 5.something.
Yup, but I remember IE 5.2 on Mac being a little better wrt. the w3c standards than IE 6 on windows, so I guess the version numbers weren't really comparable.
It was better in some ways, but IIRC the box model was the brokenest thing ever.
Don't worry! It's an industry-wide standard (apparently).
It's a good thing they require an internet connection. Because otherwise, you know... chaos.