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[Edward JS Prevost II]

Is there a GNU version? =D

Darryle Steplight wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>      Everyone gave some really good suggestions, but you should invest
> in this book http://www.cssmastery.com/ . I'm more of a back-end guy
> now, but i've done front-end development for some big name companies
> and this book has been my CSS bible. It's hasn't let me down once.
> Additionally it provided answers to all previous CSS problems I've
> googled prior to buying the book.
>
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Tim Lieberman <tim_lists at o2group.com> wrote:
>   
>> On Jul 27, 2008, at 4:46 PM, Dan Cech wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> John Campbell wrote:
>>>       
>>>> How do most people even do IE 6 testing?  As far as I can tell, there
>>>> is no legal means to test IE6 on a mac or linux.
>>>>         
>>> Under windows I've had good luck with MultipleIEs [1], for Linux there is
>>> IEs4 Linux [2].
>>>
>>> The easiest route is probably to keep a Windows machine around running
>>> IE7, IE6 (via MultipleIEs), Firefox, Safari and Opera.  You'll still run
>>> into issues that only raise their heads in older versions, but you'll have
>>> the major bases covered.
>>>
>>> Dan
>>>
>>> [1] http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE
>>> [2] http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page
>>>       
>> The best way to test IE is in windows.
>>
>> If you're doing web stuff, most of your users will be on windows, so you
>> have to run windows.
>>
>> My solution, which works quite well: VirtualBox (http://www.virtualbox.org),
>> is a free Virtual machine.  A couple of small VMs running under MacOS as the
>> host operating system (you can run VirtualBox on linux too) let me test in
>> both IE6 and IE7.  I figured out how to do it when my (non-virtual) windows
>> machine died.  It actually works quite well.  I suppose the multipleIE setup
>> could work too, but it seemed wonky last time I tried.  So now I just have
>> to virtual windows boxes, one running IE6, another running 7.
>>
>> Yes, this means paying for a copy of XP.  I hate to do it, personally, but
>> if you're in this business, it's a necessary evil.
>>
>> -Tim
>>
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