On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 11:43:49 +1200 Hadley Rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. LOL, related, I loved finding the example of an SVG graphic in IE on this page that I stumbled across in a google search: http://www.atlantictechsolutions.com/scribusdocs/scribus-svg.html Its clearly IE running on a kde desktop, and I assume on *nix. (I know kde runs on windows too, but if you were on windows why would you run your IE inside kde? > > Cheers, > > hads > > -- > http://nicegear.co.nz > New Zealand's VoIP supplier >
