Re: Anyway to emulate IE?

2002-01-09 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 12:11:20PM -0500, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > Did you read the original post? The guy wants to test a site that uses > some Microsoft specific tags in an HTML-like document. Sending MSIE's > user agent string won't allow Opera to suddenly understand these tags. I almost sent

Re: Anyway to emulate IE?

2002-01-08 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 02:51:55AM -0800, ben wrote: > > opera can be configured to identify itself as msie 5.0, not that i condone > pandering to anyone ignorant enough to insist on its usage. > Did you read the original post? The guy wants to test a site that uses some Microsoft specific tag

Re: Anyway to emulate IE?

2002-01-08 Thread ben
On Tuesday 08 January 2002 02:40 am, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 10:36:13AM +0700, Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim (rms46@vlsm.org) wrote: > > Hello Rebecca Bulander: > > > for designing the webpage of the questionnaire we used > > > a tool from Microsoft, which uses some Microsoft-sp

Re: Anyway to emulate IE?

2002-01-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 10:36:13AM +0700, Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim (rms46@vlsm.org) wrote: > Hello Rebecca Bulander: > > > for designing the webpage of the questionnaire we used > > a tool from Microsoft, which uses some Microsoft-specific-tags. > > This tags can not always be interpreted by oth

Re: Anyway to emulate IE?

2002-01-07 Thread Lance Simmons
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 09:45:48PM -0700, Dave Price wrote: > > you could try running IE in WINE or VMWARE (now > THERE is a real test for a windows emulator) vmware runs Windows (including IE) with no problems, except you can't have hardware accelerated graphics. -- .~. /v\ Lance Simmons

Re: Anyway to emulate IE?

2002-01-07 Thread Dave Price
hmmm ... Emulate IE on an open source OS? Sounds like a contradiction in terms ... like Jumbo Shrimp or Military Intelligence. You COULD try: writing a crappy browser that displays viral tendancies of installing itself along with any number of other programs / upgrades, and set's itself up as t

Re: Anyway to emulate IE?

2002-01-07 Thread Michael D. Crawford
On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 22:36, Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim wrote: > First of all, you might want to visit http://www.anybrowser.org/ . Another helpful page is an article I wrote: Use Validators and Load Generators to Test Your Web Applications http://linuxquality.sunsite.dk/articles/webapptesting/ Bes

Anyway to emulate IE?

2002-01-07 Thread Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim
Hello Rebecca Bulander: > for designing the webpage of the questionnaire we used > a tool from Microsoft, which uses some Microsoft-specific-tags. > This tags can not always be interpreted by other > internet-browser-software. Therefore you can use only > Microsoft Explorer for filling in the