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Internet Explorer 7 on Linux

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the fun-and-exciting dept.

An anonymous reader writes to mention WebExpose is running a quick guide to get Internet Explorer 7.0 running on Linux. From the article: "Microsoft conditional comments do work, unlike the standalone version of IE on Windows, so you will be able to develop and test webpages across almost all major browsers (IE 5-7, Firefox, Opera) on one Linux box! Also note that we will avoid Microsoft's Genuine Advantage download validation checks, so pure-Linux users will be able to finish the process without having to find a genuine Windows machine to download the IE7 setup file (the check is avoided legitimately, by the way)."

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  1. Re:Can I ask an obvious question without being fla by gkhan1 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Unless you have a huge website with cross-demographic appeal, your data is meaningless. If you want any kind of reliable statistic about browser usage you need to look at a whole bunch of sites like MySpace, YouTube, Wikipedia, Amazon, etc. Even that data could be skewed, the best way to measure it would probably be to ask a large random sampling of the general population what browsers they use (a boring old gallup poll, basically). Then I'd bet you'd find that IE hovers around 80%-85% of all browsers.

  2. Re:Can I ask an obvious question without being fla by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I agree with your general points, but can you please not use the term "validate"? It has a very specific meaning in relation to HTML. It means to check a document against its DTD to determine whether it is syntactically and structurally correct or not. It does not mean to check a website works in the more general sense.