I'm trying to fix my css on IE, and I want to check to see if it's working. What version should I install and from where?
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Different versions of IE behave differently. If you care about all versions, you'll have to install them all.
IE doesn't run natively on a Mac. You'll either need to use a virtualization program like VirtualBox (which itself is free, but you still need a copy of Windows) to produce a virtual Windows environment, or use services like BrowserShots that will produce images taken in IE for you (but they're often very busy and therefore slow).
Matchu
2010-10-15 02:49:10
+1 "IE doesn't run natively on a Mac." And in the old days when it did, that was a completely different version of IE, so not very useful for testing compatibility.
Thilo
2010-10-15 02:53:25
The rendering engine for IE mac was a direct port of MSHTML. I remember all the #ifdef MAC and #ifdef UNIX (it also ran on Solaris at one point) lines in the code. So it *would* have been useful for testing, if it ever made it past IE 5 or whatever it was.
jeffamaphone
2010-10-15 03:53:21
That is weird. I remember to have heard that CSS support for the mac was much better than for windows at one point.
Thilo
2010-10-16 02:08:26
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IE8, because it's stable and has IE7 compatible view mode.
It doesn't run on Mac OS, you will need to run it in Virtual Machine (VMWare, Virtualbox or Parallels).
NARKOZ
2010-10-15 02:51:15
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Best way is to use a VM, as @Matchu told in his answer.
But if you can't, this is pretty good one:
Sinan Y.
2010-10-15 03:10:38