Decaflon

I've used services like browsershots to see how my designs turn out in IE. I also have a withering old Dell laptop that still runs XP so I use that most of the time.

I"m pretty sure that you can install IE6 on a Mac, but it reacts differently than IE for Windows.

Boot Camp = Windows where IE can run natively.

Or you can run VMWare or Parallels which will emulate Windows, and thus IE.

Since IE5 got killed, there is no native IE for Macs.

yes, you have to go out and buy windows if you want to use ie.

yes, you have to go out and buy windows if you want to use ie.

Yup, pretty much.

Has anyone else tried installing IE7? You need IE with ActiveX controls just to download the installer (or download a standalone executable to authenticate your system). Which I find to be quite silly, since the installer makes sure you're running a genuine copy of Windows (for the second time now!) before starting anyways.

Now IE7 is a remarkable improvement over IE6, but I am of the opinion that the manual installation process is aimed at people who would normally be using Firefox already.

"yes, you have to go out and buy windows if you want to use ie."

Man, that just sucks. Thanks for the straightforward answer, Ozone.

As for browsershots, that's really not an option for me. Especially when I'm trying to debug a design, it's a MAJOR waste of time waiting for those screenshots.

My mums computer is the testing computer.

installing Parallels is just too much hassle, and it is a bum accessing the right files...
BootCamp works for the first 2 weeks, then you tend to forget windows, and love OsX...

find an old pc on eBay, use that for testing, all the IE's are crap anyway so it doesn't matter in what version you test...