Test all IE version from linux

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Or if you have a Windows XP virtual machine on your computer, install IETester (http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage). It'll give you access to 5.5 through 8.

IETester is useful, but I've found it gives different results than a clean installation of the relevant IE version.

For example (dimly remembered so details may be off), I had a site with one of the standard PNG transparency fixes for IE6. In "real" IE6, as expected, the PNGs rendered opaque, then turned transparent. In IETester's IE6, the PNGs rendered opaque, then... disappeared completely.

I'm thinking the minimal set is a virtual machine with IE8 (which has a IE7 mode) and IE6 running on IEsforLinux ( http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page ). Since that way you only have one virtual machine running and that saves memory.

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