IE 6 on Ubuntu 9.10

Sunday, July 04, 2010 10:02:46

One of the most obvious, if not one of the biggest, drawbacks web applications (sites) have is impact browser standards compliance. Having Internet Explorer 6 on Linux is excellent test for aforementioned.

I have installed IE (ies4linux) on Linux running wine before without problems, but tonight was different story. I have had numerous and various problems including downloading errors, corrupted file errors, blank screen, wineprefixcreate error, just to name a few.

Finally I used winetricks and it solved my problem rather quickly. I must admit that, even though I installed few MS Windows programs including Quicken, Macromedia software, DBDesigner, tonight was my first experience with winetricks. And, it was a pleasant one...

So, after I ran winetricks command I chose ie6 to install and after few button clicks I had IE6 up and running (located in wine directory, "/home/user/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Internet Explorer/IEXPLORE.EXE").

After all this trouble I found out that material I am working on is not rendering correctly on newly installed IE, but that is different story.

Comments

dado        Tuesday, August 24, 2010 07:37:01
Znaci napustio si windows kao development platformu? Cestitam! ;)
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Ersan     Wednesday, September 01, 2010 13:08:17
Ne bas...Mit-ov XP je jos uvijek instaliran kuci i 'obicni' profesionalac na poslu. Mada Ubuntu vodi i to poprilicno...
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