Internet Explorer View on OS X

[nobody]

Okay so I have an issue. I need to develop a site locally on my mac, but unfortunately I can't test it in Internet Explorer for obvious reasons. Browsershots won't work or anything like that because it'll be local.

Any ideas? IE View for firefox doesn't work on OS X, sadly. It's absolutely necessary that I test this on every browser because of the terrible state of standards support and the like. Is there anything I can do? I really can't be arsed to upload everything every time I make a menial change that may or may not throw the entire site into dissarray in internet explorer.

[GW02]

If you have an Intel Mac you can always use Parallels.

Other than that, and old school VirtualPC, you're really, really out of luck.

You could try running some wacky combination of X11, Wine, and IE, but I'm not even sure those technologies would work together, it's just an idea off the top of my head.

[nobody]

Yeah I really don't want to get that messy. Oh well, I guess I'm just screwed :)

[GW02]

Just get that screensaver that takes whatever your screen is like and shuffles it around in little sliding pieces, leaving you with a garbled mess of what it looks like in safari/firefox. That will be an approximate measure of what it will look like in IE.

Alternatively, get very drunk.

[JoshuaJonah]

:lol:

[Jeff Wheeler]

:lol:

I just annoy people on IM. I develop it 99%, then send it to somebody, assume it's working, and most of the time, it just does, to about 99% accuracy, which is all I need. ;)

[Theros]

:lol:

I just annoy people on IM. I develop it 99%, then send it to somebody, assume it's working, and most of the time, it just does, to about 99% accuracy, which is all I need. ;)

That's probably the reason my friends hate clicking on links? Can ya for my check this link to make sure it works? Thanks, a lot... :thumb:

[Krilnon]

I just annoy people on IM.

He isn't kidding, and it seems to be fast enough, as there are quite a few people who use IE. (Though they may not be as good at testing your own site as you are, since they are less familiar with it)

[Jeff Wheeler]

:lol:

[GW02]

28 can't do that though since he's developing locally.

[Jeff Wheeler]

So do I…

[bigmtnskier]

Just get that screensaver that takes whatever your screen is like and shuffles it around in little sliding pieces, leaving you with a garbled mess of what it looks like in safari/firefox. That will be an approximate measure of what it will look like in IE.

Alternatively, get very drunk.
:lol: Rofl

[ollie-]

yeah... you've got no other option than to code it and then upload, get a friend to test and retry :/

[nobody]

Yeah I think the getting drunk and/or (or, yeah right) watch that slidey screen saver is my best bet. Honestly I could just punch my keyboard for 10 minutes or so in a word document, publish as html and I'd be set.

Gah. Also has anyone noticed that if your site works in everything including IE 6, IE 7 just takes it out back and brutally rapes it?

*sigh*

[Templarian]

This thread rocks. Yea feel free to AIM me with any sites nokrev has fun with it.

The only problem you have to really worry about is Doctypes i sat for an entire hour trying to fix a problem... out of all options just deleted the doctype out and it worked.

[GW02]

Yeah IE6 vs IE7 is causing compatibility havoc right now.

You can't even use conditional comments to set them straight because they're both IE.

[ya3]

...why can't you get IE on your Mac :h:

[GW02]

Because the latest version of IE for the Mac doesn't reflect IE6 or IE7's rendering engine.

In fact, IE for the Mac had a whole seperate set of rendering problems that are equally annoying and frustratingly enough mutually exclusive from IE6/7's.

[Jeff Wheeler]

They were so bad that I have never designed a site that would look ok in them. Never had a hit from it, either. :P

[BS]

@ Nokrev :lol: