Thanks everyone for the input.  For the curious, it looks like I'm going to
try and go the wine route.

Here's where I ended up with the other two routes:

1) Litmus: works great if things are mostly already working and you're going
for a huge set of browsers. It will show you screenshots of what pages look
like on up to 24 different browsers. Unfortunately, it has no interactivity,
so you can't get to a dynamically created page, and you also can't 'play' by
tweaking html/css/javascript on a particular browser until it works.

My suggestion for litmus would be to use it as a final check on mature
product that has already been totally cleaned up and give the reports to a
client to give them that warm fuzzy they always want.

In my case, I've never even looked at my product on IE and I know it's a
total mess (probably not wise, but it is what it is).

2) Virutal PC images.  Unfortunately these no longer work on mac/parallels.
See
http://blog.ryanparman.com/2009/01/07/run-ie6-ie7-ie8-images-vmware-fusion-macosx/

So it look like I'll be trying out wine (the software).

Thanks again!
--Jon

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Edward O'Connor <[email protected]> wrote:

> > Google didn't have a great answer for this: I'm on a mac. I have
> parallels,
> > but no windows license. I need to test stuff in IE and don't want to buy
> > windows.
>
> Microsoft actually makes some VM images available for this sort of thing.
>
>
> http://www.russellheimlich.com/blog/walkthrough-setup-multiple-ie-virtual-machines-on-a-mac/
>
>
> Ted
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