IE on Linux
15Apr07
Yes, IE is bad, very bad… but if you are like me and are designing websites on Linux, testing in IE is essential to ensure that the design will work for 85% of visitors (it’s sad, but true). Fortunately, thanks to the guys behind the wonderful Wine project, IE runs quite well on Linux. There is a great program called IEs4Linux, which has been quite useful for me. Not only will it install IE 6, but it will also install IE 5.5 and 5 (hence “IEs”). Even better, the latest beta can even install the IE 7 rendering engine (although through the IE 6 interface, since IE 7 itself does not work on Wine yet). If you’re someone who needs IE on Linux for whatever reason, I’d recommend checking it out.
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Out of all of the programs ported to linux, that may be the strangest of the lot. But I am no web designer, so it does have some use. A word for the wise, and crawl the web using Firefox!
IE wasn’t ported to Linux, it can be ran under Wine. IEs4Linux just automates that process since installing IE requires some special stuff to work.