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IEs4Linux

Testing web stuff in Internet Explorer is an unfortunate necessity. It’s a lot easier if you go get IEs4Linux, which with one command installs IE5, IE5.5, and IE6 on Linux using Wine. Nice.

The latest beta version is easier to install (graphical rather than command-line) and also installs IE7 (in a rather hacked weird way); when it goes stable I shall be using it!

Good work Sérgio Luís Lopes Júnior!

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6 Responses to “IEs4Linux”

  1. have you tried to install the programm recently? in my case, the script doesn’t work and the site, on which the files are stored, seems to offline.

    hendrik
    5 hours later

  2. hendrik: worked fine for me at about six hours ago when I used it. ;)

    sil
    5 hours later

  3. Thanks for your response!
    A very cool and more convenient alternative for testing the rendering of a webpage is the IE NetRenderer .
    But with regard to test interactive content, ies4linux is obviously the best choice for linux webdesigner.

    hendrik
    5 hours later

  4. And kudos also surely to evolt.org’s Browser Archive, which I help maintain, as IEs4Linux wouldn’t work without it.

    neuro
    6 hours later

  5. neuro: really? I thought it was getting it from MS. Nice one you and the evolt archive, then!

    sil
    6 hours later

  6. IEs4Linux has saved my arse many a time when I had to test something in IE and I was running Linux. I tried an early beta that was supposed to install IE7 but it I could never get it working. If it saves me having to run a VM just to have Windows running on the off chance I;ll need IE then this is certainly the way to go.

    Fridge Magnet Man
    10 hours later

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