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Re: [LUG] Dreamweaver, Flash and Fireworks on Ubuntu - IE and Wine

 

On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 11:25:59AM +0100, Paul Sutton wrote:
> Have a look at this site
> 
> http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/en/instructions/
> 
> Its;essentially a script that downloads IE6 (or other versions if you 
> want) and installs them under Wine / Linux,  even puts a nice blue e on 
> the desktop with the wine glass on top,.   Given you can download 
> multiple versions of IE you can test on a range of different browsers 
> from the same computer,  not sure if Windows will even let you do that.
> 
> IE is then available to you to test sites, which may come in handy.

Oh wow, I don't know about testing but I am having headaches with a
couple of sites that demand IE and I cannot avoid them. 

How does it run?

> 
> Actually this would be very useful for schools where companies insist 
> the school uses IE to run their software,  if a school could perhaps 
> save on Windows Licenses and use IE under wine reliably then things 
> could really move forward.
> 
> Paul

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