Online Internet Explorer Simulators

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Tried to find simular questions   duplicates  failed   I develop on a mac  I love my mac  I develop using Chrome  Firefox  and Safari  I love them all for different reasons   But I have to develop for Internet Explorer users as well    I know  I am not unique here   I enjoy using the webkit inspector   firebug to mess with CSS  One of the biggest issues I ve found when testing ie6-8 is the inability to edit CSS on the fly  The back and forth to a VM or an actual pc  trying something in CSS  saving  reloading in IE  failing  and repeating  leads to a slow development process   So  on to my actual question   Is there any sort of online emulator simulator for various internet explorer versions  Something that somehow renders the page using the ie engine  but still allows me to use my inspector    Is this even possible

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Just stick with the virtual machine  If you re running Internet Explorer 8 you ll be able to activate the developer window using F12  There you re able to edit CSS as well as HTML on the fly without saving reloading the page

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If you have enough space on your hard-disk in your OS-X of Apple  then you could install virtualbox for Mac-OS-X after download at http   virtualbox org  Then you would need  only  100 GB to create with this virtualbox as virtual harddisk  Then install for intentions of tests simply for 1 month-free-testtime a Windows of your choice - Vista or 7 or 8 - together with internet explorer      You dont need to buy Windows for this as long as you dont test longer than one month - when testing time is expired it is not tragic at all  you simply can repeat a new testing-time      This looks trivial but with virtualbox you have a real-time-testing-area in this case with IE - no matter which version of IE

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Adobe Contribute provides a snapshot service also  but it s not free   Here s the developer toolbar for IE 6 and 7

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Here is another idea for you  It is also online w  no download  It uses window 7   ie9 with no flash support though ie9 online

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Use wine - it has IE6 with Gecko support built into it  More information here

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http   www browserstack com  It really works great  but you only have 30 minutes month for free   For 19  month you have unlimited time

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Something like BrowserShots

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I ve been using IE Tester  good  but didn t know I could simply switch versions in IE   It s nice to know the browser voted  Most likely to be the bain of your existence  has the tool built in to look at previous versions   The down side to IE Tester is it does not support javascript well  and also doesn t always do a great job with iframes    Yes  I still use them    I decided that since Google and Facebook no longer support IE7  I won t either   I have a lot less funding than they do   I know this doesn t fix the need to use VM for MAC users  but there should be ways around that too   With an 8 core processor PC computer  you can VM MAC with 4 cores  same for PC  and run 4 displays  two for each OS   Expensive  but this is our business   In most business models  it is not uncommon to spend tens of thousands of dollars on equipment   We shouldn t think of ourselves any differently   Invest in your success

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I just realized that there s yet another option  I ve heard a lot of good things about this service  Litmus Alkaline    Alkaline tests your website designs across 17 different Windows browsers right from your Mac desktop in seconds  No need for virtual machines  Windows licenses  or any messing around with Windows Update

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You could try Firebug Lite  It s a pure JavaScript-implementation of Firebug that runs directly in any browser  at least in all major ones  IE6   Firefox  Opera  Safari and Chrome   You ll still need the VM to actually run IE  but at least you ll get a quicker testing cycle

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By way of reference  here is another screenshot rendering tool  https   browserlab adobe com   It also does a number of other browsers and platforms as well  and provides a few nice little options like onion skinning etc     Note  It seems that recently Internet Explorer 6 was removed  which makes it considerably less useful  S

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Have you tried this  IE NetRenderer

[internet-explorer] Online Internet Explorer Simulators

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