Internet Explorer for Ubuntu?

[K.Mandla]

Before you flame me, hear me out.

I'm finding out the hard way that Internet Explorer doesn't display Web pages built with CSS properly. As a result, I'm forced to insert some weirdo hacks into CSS files to get them to show up the same way they might appear in Firefox, Mozilla, etc., etc.

But I do most of this stuff on an Ubuntu machine, and so I don't have a way of double-checking the output in IE.

Short of building an entire Windows system just to use an inferior browser, does anyone know of a way to see if IE4.0, IE5.0, IE5.5 and IE6.0 are confused enough to show things the way I want?

Thanks in advance.

P.S.: Nothing would please me more than a little script that says, "You're using IE. Go get a proper browser", but the boss says that's a no-no. :(

[BWF89]

It is possible because I've seen screenshots of it before.

[lordofkhemenu]

Before you flame me, hear me out.

I'm finding out the hard way that Internet Explorer doesn't display Web pages built with CSS properly. As a result, I'm forced to insert some weirdo hacks into CSS files to get them to show up the same way they might appear in Firefox, Mozilla, etc., etc.

But I do most of this stuff on an Ubuntu machine, and so I don't have a way of double-checking the output in IE.

Short of building an entire Windows system just to use an inferior browser, does anyone know of a way to see if IE4.0, IE5.0, IE5.5 and IE6.0 are confused enough to show things the way I want?

Thanks in advance.

P.S.: Nothing would please me more than a little script that says, "You're using IE. Go get a proper browser", but the boss says that's a no-no. :( If IE 5.5 will suffice, checkout the WineHQ app database page for IE 5.5:
http://appdb.winehq.com/appview.php?versionId=240
IE6 is hopeless to install.
Haven't tried it myself, as I don't much care if IE can view my pages or not. When people complain about it, I tell them as much. And to use Firefox. :)

[mstlyevil]

Before you flame me, hear me out.

I'm finding out the hard way that Internet Explorer doesn't display Web pages built with CSS properly. As a result, I'm forced to insert some weirdo hacks into CSS files to get them to show up the same way they might appear in Firefox, Mozilla, etc., etc.

But I do most of this stuff on an Ubuntu machine, and so I don't have a way of double-checking the output in IE.

Short of building an entire Windows system just to use an inferior browser, does anyone know of a way to see if IE4.0, IE5.0, IE5.5 and IE6.0 are confused enough to show things the way I want?

Thanks in advance.

P.S.: Nothing would please me more than a little script that says, "You're using IE. Go get a proper browser", but the boss says that's a no-no. :(

You can install them using Wine. I personally have never done it but there are a number of people here that have done so.

[IYY]

From what I understand, installing IE is not too difficult. The difficult part is getting it to display these annoying "IE-only" sites that require ActiveX and whatnot. But I guess since you don't need that, you're set.

[K.Mandla]

Thanks. I'll see if I can get something going here. I don't know why it didn't dawn on me to build one of those under Wine, but I don't even use IE when I have to use Windows, so it kind of figures.

[LinuxKid]

is it possible to use the ie tab extension for firefox, or does that require you to have it installed?

[dabear]

LinuxKid: I tried once, but it didn't work. Maybe if you edit some parts of the plugin yourself, but I dunno if that works either

Thread starter:
IE runs pretty darn good under crossover and/or wine I must say. With cx it's just point, click,click and click to install it, much easier than with plain old wine :)
Just to show it is possible:

[JimmyJazz]

http://jimmyjazz.homeip.net:808/ieinubuntu.png

heres a screen of me using IE with crossover, works perfectly (as good as IE can work at least).

[Stealth]

IE6 can work under Wine (or better yet in Crossover) but if you don't have Crossover, check out this tutorial (http://frankscorner.org/index.php?p=ie6) to see how you can install IE6 under Wine...

[ticlo]

This thing might help: http://sidenet.ddo.jp/winetips/config.html

[joaoeb]

Run this 2 times (don't know why it fails in ter first run).

http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/

[nanotube]

i have found that ies4linux, as the previous poster mentioned, works wonderfully. there is even a tutorial on how to get it done, here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=132508
(and yes, i, too, had to run it twice, for some reason. :) ).