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Because a large portion of end user machines attached to the Internet are Windows machines, Web developers have no choice but to develop Web applications that, while they don't necessarily rely on Microsoft technology, do have to work properly with Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser. That usually means developers require a Windows installation at their disposal. Those of us who run Linux on our home machines have a harder time testing sites for Internet Explorer compatibility, or accessing sites that require proprietary IE features. IEs4Linux is a script that can help you set up three older versions of IE on any system running Wine. Unfortunately, the program is not as polished as it should be.
Under Ubuntu, I've uses IEs4Linux a few times to get IE on my Linux box, and on the Ubuntu platform it works.
Unless they've miraculously updated their site, the Debian viersion is still pegged to Sarge.
Luckily my need for IE has magically gone away now that Opera can do the one thing for which I used to need IE, but if you do need it, this is an easy way to get it.
I use ies4linux to check the websites I build. Trouble is that IE7 is still borked (it's IE6 with the rendering engine ripped out and replaced by IE7, but it's buggy). Still, better than nothing. I can use it to develop my websites and be quite confident it works. I only ever do one final check with the real thing on a (borrowed) WIndows machine and I've never had to change a thing.
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Unless they've miraculously updated their site, the Debian viersion is still pegged to Sarge.
Luckily my need for IE has magically gone away now that Opera can do the one thing for which I used to need IE, but if you do need it, this is an easy way to get it.