Wednesday, April 20, 2011

I have a linux box. How do I see how my html pages look as rendered in IE?

I have a linux box. How do I see how my html pages look as rendered in Microsoft Internet Explorer? How do I test javascript functionality in IE?

I don't want to install a VM and a copy of the Windows OS.

From stackoverflow
  • Your best friend as a Linux web developer: http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page (IEs 4 Linux), which uses WINE to run different versions of IE

  • Check out this page to see how your page will look across browsers and OS'

    http://browsershots.org/

    To actually interact with your web site though I would suggest something like Wine or a VM like Xen.

    Also see this link: How to install internet explorer on Ubuntu or see this page IEs4Linux.

    Blorgbeard : Doesn't wine use Gecko, rather than reimplementing IE?
    Brian R. Bondy : You can run windows programs on Wine including IE.
    Eddie : If you run IE under Wine, then you are using IE, not Gecko.
  • I use linux at work and do web development that has to support IE6+ and Firefox2+.

    IE4Linux is not really good enough for properly testing IE browser rendering as it doesn't work exactly as IE does in Windows. You could use something like browsershots but I would recommend running Windows in a VM and test using that for IE testing. I've done that for awhile and it works great as long as you have a spare 512MB ram for XP.

    tpdi : Great suggestion, but my primary box these days is a netbook. Spare ram I do not have.
    SCdF : ouch, then I dunno dude. I've tried using IE4Linux before but I've had incorrect CSS, CTDs (from JS no lesS) and various rendering issues with it before. It might be good enough for a base santiy check with more detailed checks on XP done only so often.
  • Another Service similiar to browsershots but faster is http://ipinfo.info/netrenderer/. Otherwise - if you have a copy of windows lying around why not use a virtual machine? Suns virtualbox is nice enough: http://www.virtualbox.org/

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