Microsoft have a wonderfully long history of badly designed software that they're proudly continuing to this day with the abomination of IE 9 and the ghastly sham that is Windows 7. It's a tribute to the skills of the many hard-working marketing heads over at Redmond that despite the poor quality and the easy availability of superior cost-free alternatives, people the world over keep coming back to Microsoft like hookers on crack. IEs4LinuxIE's popularity has exasperated professional web developers ever since the internet became more than an academic curio in the late 90s. Other than simple dual booting, the first option for those who wanted to test their sites on IE was, which uses to run the IE web installer. Just as if it were running under Windows, the installer connects to MS's servers, downloads, and then installs IE on your Linux machine.

It's still available, but has for the most part been superseded by the winetricks installation described below. Running Recent IE VersionsHowever, IE 6 usage has finally shrunk down to a mere couple of percent of web users, and can at last be ignored for the vast majority of web sites. Sure, there are people out there using IE 6, but in most cases they can be safely ignored as such people - with their ancient dusty desktops clunking along - are, to be blunt, unlikely to be big spenders on the internet.

More recent versions however remain popular, and while standards support is much better now than it used to be, there are still gotchas that will destroy your IE-using customers' confidence if allowed to make their way onto a live web site. If your only concern is styling, and your site uses no fancy JavaScript, you may be able to get by using which will produce screenshots of your site on a variety of browsers. Hot Photos Of Malayalam Serial Actress. For anything else however, you're going to need a running version of the browser in question. Winetricks can install IE 6, 7 and 8 using the Windows installer in much the same way as IEs4Linux does above. Unfortunately, IE 9 cannot be installed this way, and if you want more than one of IE 6, 7 and 8 available at the same time, you'll need to install each with a different WINEPREFIX (as shown above).

During the installation, uncheck the 'Install updates' option when asked and choose 'Restart later' at the end. Installation is straightforward though. WINEPREFIX=~ /.wine32ie8 WINEARCH=win32 winetricks ie8 crypt32Note we're also installing crypt32 for IE8 - a workaround for a crash in ntdll that otherwise occurs as soon as you try to interact with the browser.