From the Inquirer -
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34625
"A BRAZILIAN web designer got tired of having to boot Windows to see how web pages looked in IE, so he coded a little script allowing anyone to download, install and run IE on Linux.
...Sérgio Lopes, a 21 years old web designer and Linux user from Brazil, decided to make it easy for non-techies to install and run the Windows version of the Vole's web browser effortlessly.
That's how 'IEs4Linux' was born, a script that 'automagically' downloads and installs not one but the last three release versions of Internet Explorer -6.0, 5.5 SP2, and 5.0- on any 32-bit linux desktop with the wine core libraries in place. The installer program by Lopes -released under a GPL licence- relies on 'wine' and a third party utility dubbed 'cabextract' to decompress the windows archives downloaded from Microsoft's site. The IEs4Linux program is at version 2.0 after a long beta testing period that spanned from April to August."
I think IE is an awful browser but some sites are hard-coded to IE and unusable with anything else. Personally, I don't bother and
we successfully lobbied my bank to make it's website and transactions W3C compatible so that other browsers could use 'em
Rather than going the IE for Linux route we should pressurise websites to conform to W3C standards!
But Rome wasn't built in a day.
"The program's author advises: "Please, don’t use any of these IEs to navigate!! Get Firefox instead". And I agree, the last thing the web needs is for broken sites to remain broken and IE only. But while we bug forever the worst lazy webmasters to fix their web sites for cross-platform, web standards compliance, IEs4Linux is a beautiful way to avoid booting Windows or the bloat of dealing with a complete Windows virtual machine on something like VMWare. "
Get IE 4 Linux at
http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/index-en.html
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