On Mon, August 9, 2010 10:45 pm, Craig Boxall wrote:
> Im pretty sure Brendan is asking about how to test current versions of
> Internet Explorer for Windows whilst on his Mac.
>
> If you cant/dont want to have a separate machine for this testing, Im with
> Keri. Using Virtual Box is great. I separate virtual machines for:
>
> - Windows XP with IE6
> - Windows XP with IE7/8
> - Windows 7 with IE8

I use VMWare Fusion for the same purpose, and have separate VMs for
different IE versions on Windows, and a VM for Ubuntu.
http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/
It's not free, but I first got it before VirtualBox came out, and haven't
had much of a reason to change.

Regards
Jonathan

> On 9/08/2010, at 10:22 PM, Wazzä wrote:
>
>> The last update to Internet Explorer for the Mac was 2003 - If I
>> recall rightly, that version struggled to understand CSS version 2 ...
>> (and only on x86 architecture via Rosetta)
>>
>> I think the length of time that has past means that many out there
>> won't even realise that it was an option...
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Wazzä
>>
>> On 9 August 2010 21:20, Rimu Atkinson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Literally no one uses that combination of browser and OS any more. I
>>> just
>>> checked the google analytics on a quite popular web site that I admin,
>>> and
>>> couldn't find it in the top 49 combos (the last 10 of which were a
>>> single
>>> visitor out of ~23,000).
>>>
>>> On the mac, Safari and Firefox are what people use, with a smattering
>>> of
>>> Chrome.
>>>
>>> R
>>>
>>> On 09/08/10 21:11, Brendan Brink wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi there all,
>>>
>>> Im developing on a Mac and its probably something I should have found
>>> out a long time before but any recommendations on a tool to view
>>> websites on a Mac in the Internet Explorer browser to see any issues
>>> with the browsers display of my websites?
>>>
>>> Much appreciated...
>>> Cheers
>>> Brendan.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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