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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