Re: [gentoo-user] {OT?} What happened to iexplore in wine?

[Paul Hartman]

On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 7:02 AM, Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote:
> 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.