Internet Explorer on Ubuntu?

Until recently I had been doing all my web design editing on my ubuntu laptop at home. I didn’t really think about the likely story that Internet Explorer would have issues with rendering the stuff I was doing.

I wish I would of grabbed a screen shot of the madness that IE created with FUMCclass.com. The paragraphs were invisible, the headers we sized so big that just a few letters were filling up the whole screen, not to mention problems with the sidebar & footer. It took me about 10 hours total spanning over two days to get most everything lined out. There are still parts that I need to look into.

The trouble with having ubuntu is that I can’t debug in IE. The other day I came to the great idea of using wine. Well trying to do it with wine is very difficult but luckily someone has made it easy; in the form of IEs4Linux. The install is pretty easy, with a gui; though it seemed to be kind of buggie. It hung on the first install, so I had to try again.

IE7 support is still in beta, but from my testing I couldn’t get it to work. It would open though I could never get a page to pull up with it. I didn’t spend much time with it though, so it could of been an error on my part. I was able to get IE6 (and I didn’t try 5.5 or 5) running. Though definitely not stable enough to do anything important, it should be helpful in the future for web development.