>> I haven't used wine's /usr/bin/iexplore to test a website in IE for a >> while, and now it looks like that binary is no longer installed. Does >> anyone know how to get it, or if there is a replacement of some sort? >> I looked at the files installed by wine in /usr/bin but didn't see >> anything. > > In my experience, even when IE works in Wine it doesn't work exactly > the same as it does on a real Windows machine. I think a much more > reliable way to test things in IE is to download the free XP and Vista > virtual machine images from Microsoft which are intended for exactly > this purpose: > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=21eabb90-958f-4b64-b5f1-73d0a413c8ef&displaylang=en > > And here's someone's blog about converting the VirtualPC hard drive > image into other formats for use on Linux in Virtualbox: > http://www.abdevelopment.ca/blog/running-microsofts-ie-application-compatibility-images-virtualbox > > Rather than downloading several virtual machine images, you could just > download one and install IETester into it: > http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage > which lets you do browsing with IE versions from 5.5 through 8 and > side-by-side comparisons between versions.
Thanks Paul. I'll set this up ASAP. Virtualbox didn't work for me the last time I tried but that was a while ago. - Grant
