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

Question

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.

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

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/