Okay, I know it sounds a little silly, but I just had to try. I'm using Moka5 to host Ubuntu on my iPod (because I can, not because I'm uber or anything like that) and I was testing a site build and needed to see how it looked in IE6.

Now I could have just gone to my other machine (the laptop has been upgraded to IE7 but we've got a desktop still at IE6 - it's my Media Centre machine so I don't dare touch in in case we miss something!) but I had the Ubuntu desktop up (testing the site in Firefox) and thought.... let's try out this IEs4Linux thing...

Well, I was very pleasantly surprised. I does exactly what it says on the tin with very little fuss. I only noticed after installing IE6 that it can apparently install the IE7 engine as well (wonder if they'll ever get the tabbed container working as well!)

It does need to install Wine, and requires a few keystrokes in Terminal... but the instructions are straightforward - if you've got Linux up and running it's not going to be beyond you. If you need to do compatibility testing this is really handy... and you can have multiple versions of IE co-existing side-by-side.

Hmmm... wonder if this can be made to work on OSX....

 

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