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Linux for Designers

a blog by Eckhard M. Jäger

Posts tagged with "internet explorer"

IE Death March

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"Internet Explorer 6 will be SEVEN years old on August 27th. It came out a few weeks before the Twin Towers fell. It came out before the Nintendo GameCube. It came out before the first iPod." Dave Auayan is right with his initiative "IE Death March". Enough is enough! Please stop using Internet Explorer 6! May update to Internet Explorer 7 or use alternatives like Firefox or Opera.

IE 8 Development Slowness

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After end of August Microsoft barely offers the secound beta of the Internet Explorer 8 now they answered to the question about "What’s After Beta 2". The answer is "We will release one more public update of IE8 in the first quarter of 2009". Wow thats really slow! I believe at this time we will have Firefox 3.1, Opera 9.7 (may with a better GUI) and a much improved Webkit/ Safari (and IE 8 is just another beta or RC).
What will be available when IE 8 reaching the final state?

Browser War

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After we getting the Beta2 of the Internet Explorer 8 and Googles Chrome Beta now the fight about the fastes browser is opened again. This Time it is now about rendering HTML, this time it is all about JavaScript. 2 Day's Chrome take the throne of speed but the new build of Firefox 3.1 with TracMonkey is very close. Check out that stats:
http://scr3.golem.de/?d=0809/Firefox_TraceMonkey&a=62200

Some older performance tests:
http://ejohn.org/blog/javascript-performance-rundown/
http://scr3.golem.de/?d=0809/Google_Chrome&a=62163

Ok you notice the difference between 17866ms of the IE 7 and 1209 of Google Chrome, but can you notice the difference of 200ms? In fact that Google collects so many data, i didn't like the vision that Google collect any step i make at the web.

CSS Compatibility and Internet Explorer

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Well the different Internet Explorer versions and their interpretation of the CSS standards can drive you crazy. So this overview at MSDN about the CSS compatibility may help you staying cool :smile: IE 5 up to IE 8 are listed.

Wine 1.0 RC1

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Wine 1.0 RC1 is now available for download. After 15 years of development it is planed to publish Wine on the 6th of June as final. Help the Wine project finding bugs and getting 1.0 stable.
Here is a short howto:

* Make sure Wine 1.0 RC1 and your favorite Windows app are installed
* Open a terminal and start your application with
env WINEPREFIX="~/.wine" wine "C:\Path\To\Your\app.exe"
* Check the output in the terminal and copy it per action via Ctrl+C into a text editor
(an example http://www.neeneenee.de/wine_photoline1451.txt)
* Go to the Wine bugtracker create a account or login
* First make sure the bug isn't submited yet
* If the bug exist create a comment and append a link to your textfile of the output

If you do not have any Wine experience check out my post "Getting your Windows app running on Linux in a easy way". You can tweak the Wine GUI too to give it a more Ubuntu styled look.

Getting your Windows app running on Linux in a easy way on Ubuntu

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Here is the summary of my talk about WINE at the Ubuntu Hardy Heron release party Berlin. It includes all links and describes the best way getting an app like Photoshop running smooth.

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Wine-Door 0.2

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I discovered htis interesting video about Wine-Doors 0.2, which is a software management tool for Windows applications on top of Wine at the Gnome Desktop.



For supporting this simple way of installing the Internet Explorer the developers of Wine-Doors use code from the original IEs4Linux script.

IEs 4 Linux 2.99.0.1

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IEs 4 Linux brings the Internet Explorer 5,6 and 7 for web developers to Linux.
Many people getting display problems when using IEs4Linux with recent wine versions (>=0.9.52), the IE toolbar disappear and others bugs happens. For that problem a little emergency release is now available.

IEs 4 Linux 2.99

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IEs 4 Linux brings the Internet Explorer 5,6 and 7 for web developers to Linux. A while it seems nothing happens on the IEs 4 Linux project and so i didn't visit it a longer time. But the development wasn't dead and they released the version 2.99 that brings a lot of improvements and better support for Internet Explorer 7. This is the last 2.x release and we can look forward for version 3.
The installer isn't longer just a shell script it starts now with a GUI and that's really cool! If you like to install the IE 7 you have to click at the "Advanced" button.
Mike Kronenberg started last porting IEs4Linux to Mac OS X. He made all modifications to the script needed to make it run on Mac. He also macfied the install process to make it more like what Mac users expect.
Happy coding!

Internet Explorer on Linux: IEs 4 Linux 2.5 beta 6

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There is a new site and a new beta 6 of IEs 4 Linux.
It allows you to run different versions of the IE on Linux in a easy way. the upcoming release will support the Internet Explorer 7.

Internet Explorer on Linux: IEs4Linux 2.5 beta 5

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People developing webpages often have to check if it works on Internet Exlorer too. But how to do that on Linux? Very, very easy, all you need is IEs 4 Linux.
It allows you to run different versions of the IE on Linux in a easy way. A new beta 5 of the upcoming 2.5 version was released yesterday. It brings IE7 to Linux!
With that tool you have nearly all browsers on Linux: IE, Gecko (Firefox, Mozilla etc.) KHTML (Safari, Konquerer) and Opera. Happy hacking!

Internet Explorer on Linux

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People developing webpages often have to check if it works on Internet Exlorer too. But how to do that on Linux? Very, very easy, all you need is IEs 4 Linux.
It allows you to run different versions of the IE on Linux in a easy way. A new beta of the upcoming 2.5 version was released yesterday. It brings IE7 to Linux!
With that tool you have nearly all browsers on Linux: IE, Gecko (Firefox, Mozilla etc.) KHTML (Safari, Konquerer) and Opera. Happy hacking!