Can Safari impersonate IE?

[mouseymousey]

Morning all

I've just joined the darkside and bought myself a MacBook. The straw that broke the camels back wass the latest lot of Vista updates which broke a 3 week old laptop.

Anyway, there's one website that I use a lot that doesn't like Safari, it just displays an incompatible browser page. I can use firefox OK but I really like safari and don't want to have to run 2 browsers side by side. Is there anyway I can get Safari to impersonate IE? The site in question, in case it helps, is www.betdaq.com

As an aside, I have to say I kind of fell for all the talk about how great and simple Macs are but coming from a lifelong PC background I'm not finding them as straightforward as I'd like. I'm sure I'll get used to it though.

Cheers for any help on this.

Matt

[mouseymousey]

robbieduncan said:

Safari can send a User Agent String to the site claiming to be IE, but this does not mean that it will behave like IE (it will still not support ActiveX or any IE bugs). For most sites, especially if they will work with Firefox, this is fine though.

First turn on the debug menu: http://developer.apple.com/internet/safari/faq.htm...

Then restart Safari and use the debug menu to set the User Agent String.

Cool... I'll try that tonight. Thanks!

cjs said:

I came over from PC to Mac two years ago, it took me a while to get totally familiar with Mac, its more difficult if you think with your Windows head on, you will get used to it very quickly. What in particular are you finding difficult?

Hmm, things I'm finding diifficult at the moment:

Lack of a delete and home key (I know I can use 2 keys to perform each function, but it's a pain)

Minimize and Maximize buttons being on the 'wrong' side (just something I'll get used to)

The " and @ being on the 'wrong' keys despite everything being setup for British layout

Not having a task bar with all running applications - Expose works to a degree but doesn't showing running apps if there's no window currently open.

There's a few things that I've figured out, like how to setup a VPN connection, which I could do with my eyes closed in Windows but took time with the Mac. Once you've done these tasks once then it's very easy, it's just that first time I also really disliked the 2-finger scroll on the trackpad but I've found an application that lets you scroll with one finger at the side of the trackpad which I much prefer.

I'm getting there slowly, and the sheer difference in speed between the MacBook and the Vista laptop is enough to make me persevere.

[mouseymousey]

Aha, there's an indicator on the dock is there? I'll have to look for that!

Thanks.

[mouseymousey]

some great tips, thanks.

[mouseymousey]

Just reporting back with success! Changed the user agent string to IE7 and the site works fine.

Also - thanks for the tips relating to the dock, I've made it smaller and I can also see the little indicator showing open apps.

Cheers all!