And you can run it in a virtual machine running Windows.You can't run IE for Windows (or Pocket IE for Windows Mobile) on Mac OS X.And IE for Mac is actually far less like IE7 for Windows than any modern browser is.You also can't legally download IE for Mac from anywhere anymore (except as part of old versions of OS X).If you have an ancient Mac, and it's running 10.2 or 10.3 rather than 10.4, it already has IE (and if you want to reinstall it, it's part of the OS X install), so there's no reason to download IE.You can't run IE for Mac on any modern Mac.There are many reasons it may not make sense to download Internet Explorer onto a Mac, and also many reasons why it might. Make sure to enable IE quirks mode, and set the user agent to pretend to be IE7 for Windows, and you should be golden.īut for the question you actually asked, there is no blanket answer to this that could possibly be correct. Opera, on the other hand, works hard to be able to emulate the quirks of all of the important browsers. Of course in the case of bugs and quirks that are still present in later versions of IE, they'll do a perfect job of emulating IE7, but for bugs that were fixed, that's not a particularly important focus. Wine will mostly work, but it can be fiddly to configure, and may crash and/or have visual glitches that don't happen with real Windows if you really want to get serious about that you may want to look at Crossover.īut the next best way to test IE7 for Windows is actually Opera. Of course it's much more convenient, and almost certainly good enough, to run Windows in a VM under OS X via Parallels, VMware, etc.
Or buy a used $99 Windows box and borrow the Mac's keyboard/mouse/etc. Just because you have a Mac doesn't mean you can't do that.
The best way to test something with IE7 for Windows is to use IE7 for Windows.
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