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Apparently this is no longer the case (though I havent tried it to confirm) and you can actually run it under wine (with a little bit of work).... http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/news/28

Soon if these guys have anythign to say aobut it.
http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page

...now that we can run IE6 on Linux?

It even supports active X! Active X! None of the true internet experience will be lost to you now.

I am a proud IE-on-Debian user and there are millions* like me!

http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page

*0.00005 millions

IEs4Linux.

Run it's script and it will ask you what versions you want to install (5, 5.5, 6) and it will install it. It also can install Flash 9. This makes things really easy. I have access to three versions of IE on my Linux desktop, Opera, Firefox and Konqueror. For IE7 I have that in VMWare. To my left is my PowerBook with Safari, Firefox, and Opera (though I can test for all of these under Linux).

Someone, or more likely several someones, will independantly enumerate every area of non-compliance that exists in MSIE7. (Has it been released yet? I haven't seen an installation for Linux yet... I have MSIE6 on my Linux laptop thanks to some very clever script writers: http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/index-en.html)

That said, I have read where even Firefox isn't yet 100% compliant. I'm usure of how much difficulty that causes web developers though. Actually, I don't know much of anything about the web except that I use Firefox pretty exclusively. If MSIE7 was made at least as compliant as Firefox, it would actually kinda bother me as it would give me a lot less leverage to keep my Firefox deployment where I work.

Of course I don't use Internet Explorer on the Linux computer since it isn't even avilable for Linux [...]

Not entirely true. IEs 4 Linux. I installed it, just because I could... Besides, it can run Flash 8-9 and stuff (so I can watch the Weebl & Bob episodes that require Flash 8), but it's highly unstable --- think (stability of Wine) * (stability of IE)...

I wonder if this WMF-exploit will work in IE on Linux... And - if so - what will it do?

just for completeness: http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/index-en.html Explore all your internets from loonix. Works pretty well, except tooltips show up as fully-decorated windows.

ies4linux is a simple Bash Script program that installs Internet Explorer 6, 5.5 and 5 on Linux using Wine. The whole process is automatic and very easy.

I've got IE6 installed on Gentoo, and it runs... well, it runs well enough to let me test web pages I'm developing. It also loads mail.live.com after only crashing 2 or 3 times. *shrug*

It is if you use this script.

Because IE IS BROKEN, the webmaster need to test his design against the IE bugs. So If you are a Linux webmaster, you will need something like ie4linux to use IE5+IE5.5+IE6 under linux.

Do you have any idea how long it took to get IE running on Linux?

About 10 minutes? I run ie5.5 and ie6 under wine setup by this installer script so I can check web stuff without having to fire up qemu. And yes I know you were just kidding :p

I used the guide here: http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/ and I did get IE working under Fedora Core 4 with WINE installed. A user agent check reported it to be the Windows 98 version of IE6...

One of the problems that I have found most annoying about Wine is the fact that everything always seemed to require so much tweaking and tuning and adjusting, not to mention manually sorting out DLLs that need to be copied and all of that stuff. The problem I hated the most was the installation! I'm not a genius and I don't have the time and patience I once did for this sort of thing. It's cool as hell when it works though. And such was my experience when I first installed MSIE6 on my FedoraCore4 laptop. I went to a website (follow this link here) that provided a script that performed the whole installation in one step... well almost one step -- I needed to install a cab extraction utility first... and I already had the RPM for Wine installed at the time. But my point was that it was SO simple and direct.

I don't really care to use MSIE... but I can if I really need to. :) And I didn't know it was a "bottle" at the time but now I realize it must be because it created its own "Windows" install in the process.

I feel like eventually, just about any application will have some sort of bottle available for installation. This is a terrific development and a huge hurdle when it comes to deployment of Linux on the desktop where we still have those "legacy Windows apps" that we can't do without.

i have ie 5/5.5/6 all installed on debian etch: gander here:

http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/

it requires wine and cabextract