Ah yes, I forgot to mention my Ubuntu VM.

Also, I keep previous versions of Firefox etc on the respective Windows VMs.

So my VM with IE6 has FF2 and my IE 7/8 has FF3 as we have found some peculiar 
differences between FF2 and 3.

Kind regards

Craig Boxall
Director

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On 10/08/2010, at 7:43 AM, [email protected] wrote:

> 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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