Testing multiple versions of IE on a Mac?

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What's the best way?

I've managed to get a version of IE6 installed on the Mac, but I'm more concerned about IE7 and IE8. The only real way I can think of doing this is to use VirtualBox or VMWare to create virtual Windows PCs with IE installed on them.

Unless anyone else has another suggestion?

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Joined: Jun 1999

That's the only way to do it on Linux right now too. At least IE8 has that compatibility mode so you can do a check in IE7 mode too (not that IE7 mode is exactly like real IE7 but probably good enough for most of us).

greg's picture

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It's not as good as having control over the browser yourself, but this site has been very useful to me in the past:

http://browsershots.org/

It's not always perfect, I.E. sometimes if the site takes a while to load you don't get a complete result, but it certainly helps when you don't have access to a certain browser and/or resolution.

They have: 25 posts

Joined: Sep 2009

Can try browser screenshots website.

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