Linux for Designers

Again M$ has a "new" strategy for "opening" there formats and APIs. So at the moment they contact open source projects for some kind of "help" and took as an example for moving towards to open source their OpenXML - very strange behavior at all. They contacted the Blender heads too . Read the article at Groklaw about the true goals of M$. There is a discussion about that email at the Blenderartitst board too.

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!