Re: [gentoo-user] {OT?} What happened to iexplore in wine?

[Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>]

>> I haven't used wine's /usr/bin/iexplore to test a website in IE for a
>> while, and now it looks like that binary is no longer installed.  Does
>> anyone know how to get it, or if there is a replacement of some sort?
>> I looked at the files installed by wine in /usr/bin but didn't see
>> anything.
>
> In my experience, even when IE works in Wine it doesn't work exactly
> the same as it does on a real Windows machine. I think a much more
> reliable way to test things in IE is to download the free XP and Vista
> virtual machine images from Microsoft which are intended for exactly
> this purpose:
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=21eabb90-958f-4b64-b5f1-73d0a413c8ef&displaylang=en
>
> And here's someone's blog about converting the VirtualPC hard drive
> image into other formats for use on Linux in Virtualbox:
> http://www.abdevelopment.ca/blog/running-microsofts-ie-application-compatibility-images-virtualbox
>
> Rather than downloading several virtual machine images, you could just
> download one and install IETester into it:
> http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage
> which lets you do browsing with IE versions from 5.5 through 8 and
> side-by-side comparisons between versions.

Thanks Paul.  I'll set this up ASAP.  Virtualbox didn't work for me
the last time I tried but that was a while ago.

- Grant