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Testing pages for MS Internet Explorer, on Mac
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That does not make the page render in the same way as in IE, it just changes the user agent string, so any scripts that detect the browser to show specific content you can see.
To check full compatibility, i.e. the rendereing you really need to load the page up in IE in Windows, either using a virtual machine or bootcamp
Surely, the last version of IE for Mac was released many, many years ago. Not much point in checking compatibility for that?
Edit: just noticed the crucial comma in your original post, which changes the entire meaning of it! So ignore my post!
Edit: just noticed the crucial comma in your original post, which changes the entire meaning of it! So ignore my post!
http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page
Ta daa. It supposedly works with Mac OSX. This is literally IE running under DarWINE(WINE) and apparently they do some sort of trick to make the IE 7 rendering engine work with 6 with the Beta.
http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Beta
http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Known_issues
This is the first thing Im doing mhen I get my Intel Mac.
Having another work computer to test IE webpages is becoming cumbersome.
Or there is another way,
http://litmusapp.com/browser-testin...campaign=Website+testing&referrer=netrenderer
Ta daa. It supposedly works with Mac OSX. This is literally IE running under DarWINE(WINE) and apparently they do some sort of trick to make the IE 7 rendering engine work with 6 with the Beta.
http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Beta
http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Known_issues
This is the first thing Im doing mhen I get my Intel Mac.
Having another work computer to test IE webpages is becoming cumbersome.
Or there is another way,
http://litmusapp.com/browser-testin...campaign=Website+testing&referrer=netrenderer
I have Windows XP installed into a VirtualBox VM, then run standalone versions of IE so I can get multiple versions running at the same time to check how things work. I've tried the ies4linux type solutions and they just don't do it. They generally don't handle everything so it only gives you a guess how it will look and work in a real IE browser.
That works decently however it's not accurate - some things that simply were not working in it worked fine in the regular IE application on Windows (for example, EOT fonts).
Booting up XP is the only way of really testing this properly - a VM is probably the best option with IETester (you can load tabs with multiple versions of IE).
You can also use something like IE Netrenderer if you just need a quick snapshot of the page. It just generates an image of the (top of) the page, so it's not very useful if you're trying to test javascript or other active elements. For the full effect, testing on XP is the only real way to ensure it works right. As has been mentioned the WINE solution doesn't get it quite right on certain things.
Something worth keeping your eye on maybe is winebottler. It's only in the Beta phase, and I understand it plays better with 10.5 rather than 10.6 at the moment.
