Svyatogor's cave » development http://blog.veles.info Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 26 Dec 2009 15:33:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Testing your site in Internet Explorer under Linux or Mac. http://blog.veles.info/index.php/2008/09/testing-your-site-in-internet-explorer-under-linux-or-mac/ http://blog.veles.info/index.php/2008/09/testing-your-site-in-internet-explorer-under-linux-or-mac/#comments Sun, 14 Sep 2008 08:33:00 +0000 Sergey Kuleshov http://blog.veles.info/?p=45 When you develop a web site in 9 cases out of 10 you have to ensure that it works and looks properly in all major browsers. While Firefox and Opera is available on all platforms, testing your browser under Internet Explorer might be a bit tricky if your development happens on Linux or  Mac. If you are a "happy owner" of a windows license - fair enough, go and in stall it under virtual machine. But what if you don't have a license and aren't quite up to breaking the laws on pirate bay?

Even if you have a copy of windows there is one thing you have to keep in mind - the way Internet Explorer renders pages varies not only between browsers versions but even between OS versions!  So, ideally, we want to test our websites in a native environment.

Surprisingly enough, MS gives us a free solution! They provide VirtualPC images for a number IE/Windows combinations. You can attach the VHD images to VirtualBox (as of version 2.0 it supports VirtualPC disk images) or convert them to Parallels Desktop using their Transporter tool. The only trick (yeah, MS did have to screw it up!)  is that images are distributed in self-extracting EXE files. So you will need either a windows machine or Wine to unpack 'em.

IE App Compat VHD

]]> http://blog.veles.info/index.php/2008/09/testing-your-site-in-internet-explorer-under-linux-or-mac/feed/ 0