From: | Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> | ||
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To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] {OT?} What happened to iexplore in wine? | ||
Date: | Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:53:11 | ||
Message-Id: | 49bf44f10911100453m1b7a616cu674744c9301e342f@mail.gmail.com | ||
In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-user] {OT?} What happened to iexplore in wine? by Paul Hartman |
1 | >> I haven't used wine's /usr/bin/iexplore to test a website in IE for a |
2 | >> while, and now it looks like that binary is no longer installed. Does |
3 | >> anyone know how to get it, or if there is a replacement of some sort? |
4 | >> I looked at the files installed by wine in /usr/bin but didn't see |
5 | >> anything. |
6 | > |
7 | > In my experience, even when IE works in Wine it doesn't work exactly |
8 | > the same as it does on a real Windows machine. I think a much more |
9 | > reliable way to test things in IE is to download the free XP and Vista |
10 | > virtual machine images from Microsoft which are intended for exactly |
11 | > this purpose: |
12 | > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=21eabb90-958f-4b64-b5f1-73d0a413c8ef&displaylang=en |
13 | > |
14 | > And here's someone's blog about converting the VirtualPC hard drive |
15 | > image into other formats for use on Linux in Virtualbox: |
16 | > http://www.abdevelopment.ca/blog/running-microsofts-ie-application-compatibility-images-virtualbox |
17 | > |
18 | > Rather than downloading several virtual machine images, you could just |
19 | > download one and install IETester into it: |
20 | > http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage |
21 | > which lets you do browsing with IE versions from 5.5 through 8 and |
22 | > side-by-side comparisons between versions. |
23 | |
24 | Thanks Paul. I'll set this up ASAP. Virtualbox didn't work for me |
25 | the last time I tried but that was a while ago. |
26 | |
27 | - Grant |