I have a Linux box. How do I see how my HTML pages look in Internet Explorer?

Question

I have a Linux box. How can I see how HTML pages look like displayed in Microsoft Internet Explorer? How to check JavaScript in Internet Explorer?

I do not want to install a VM and a copy of Windows.

Answer 1

Your best friend as a Linux IEs4Linux web developer who uses Wine to run various versions of Internet Explorer.

Answer 2

Browse this page to see how your page will look in browsers and OS

http://browsershots.org/

To actually interact with your website, I would suggest something like Wine or VM like Xen .

Also see this link: How to install Internet Explorer on Ubuntu or view this IEs4Linux page.

Answer 3

I use Linux at work and do web development that should support Internet Explorer 6 (and later) and Firefox 2 (and later).

IE4Linux is actually not good enough to test Internet browser browser rendering properly, as it does not work exactly like Internet Explorer does in Windows. You can use something like browsershots , but I would recommend running Windows in a virtual machine and testing using this to test Internet Explorer. I did this for a while, and it works great if you have 512 MB of backup RAM for Windows and XP.

Answer 4

Another browser-like service, but faster, is IE NetRenderer . Otherwise, if you have a copy of Windows, why not use a virtual machine? Suns VirtualBox is good enough.

Answer 5

I agree that browsershots.org is a great place to run, but it provides only a screenshot. If you use JavaScript or jQuery and see how things look when you interact with your page in Internet Explorer (almost any version from Internet Explorer 5 and above), crossbrowsertesting.com is a great resource.

Answer 6

Probably your best bet for accurate rendering without paying a Windows license is to use one of the virtual machines provided by MS. Below are some links to virtual machine configuration guides using VirtualBox.

http://blog.philipbrown.id.au/2009/03/internet-explorer-application-compatibility-vpc-images-under-virtualbox/

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/installing-windows-7-on-a-virtual-machine/

I used VirtualBox and these images are very few and it works well, the only drawback is that you need to reinstall every quarter because the images are expiring.