On Wednesday 30 August 2006 11:22, Roy Britten wrote: > I've just tried IEs4linux http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/index-en.html > > It's a nice utility that downloads and installs a running copy of MSIE. > If you have a need for MSIE for website testing or other reasons this > runs much quicker than either vmware or qemu. Requirements are wine and > cabextract, both of which should be available in your $DISTRO's > packaging mechanism. > > The download is fairly small (~323K). Running the installer causes wget > to fetch a bunch of files from Microsoft's web site. > > First impressions are that it is quick and stable, so long as you don't > attempt anything too hairy like installing weird plugins. I'm not > convinced that complicated DOM rendering is 100% right, but it's better > than nothing.
Thanks for the excellent pointer Roy, I currently use VMWare specifically for testing websites in IE. I just went and installed IE using IEs4linux and it worked perfectly. At first glance it seems to render all my sites correctly (well the same as IE on Windows but I don't know if I'd call it corect :) Much, much more convenient than resuming VMWare. Cheers, hads -- http://nicegear.co.nz New Zealand's VoIP supplier
