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Testing IE on a Mac

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Testing IE on a Mac

Postby ferny » Tue Mar 31, 2009 2:22 am

Can anyone suggest the best way to test my web pages on IE using a mac?
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Re: Testing IE on a Mac

Postby m00min » Tue Mar 31, 2009 12:56 pm

I use Parallels and have set up three virtual PCs, with IE6, 7 and 8 separately. This does take up a fair amount of disk space but I do it this way to ensure I can test on default IE's. You could save space by using Multiple IE to run the older copies. I find this setup easier to use than having an actual PC to test on. My desktop is certainly less cluttered.
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Re: Testing IE on a Mac

Postby Hanne » Wed Apr 01, 2009 6:29 pm

http://www.kronenberg.org/ies4osx/

I use ies4osx, a program that runs different versions of IE through Wine, though it doesn't have support for IE7. The only thing I found was a bit different was the font rendering in IE6 in Wine versus the normal IE6 browser in Windows. Definitely recommended.
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Re: Testing IE on a Mac

Postby Adam Sheridan » Sun Apr 05, 2009 8:55 am

I also use parallels with Windows XP & IE installed on a virtual pc.
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Re: Testing IE on a Mac

Postby tan » Thu Apr 09, 2009 1:09 pm

Try to use IETester toll it is simulator but rather good
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Re: Testing IE on a Mac

Postby mike360 » Thu Sep 17, 2009 5:45 pm

I use VMWare Fusion with separate Win XP VMs for IE6 and 7, and I've also got a Windows 7 VM with IE8 (and an Ubuntu VM for a server environment but that's beside the point).
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Re: Testing IE on a Mac

Postby r_jake » Tue Nov 10, 2009 3:34 pm

VMWare Fusion with a copy of Windows running IE Tester.

Or buy a cheap PC Laptop and Run IE Tester.

Both options end up costing about the same. First is more convenient, the second gives you another machine that can also play games and partner/spouse/offspring can fiddle about with...
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