IEs4Linux is already a few months old, but I’ve just come across it just recently. Previously, I’m running IE6 by using winetools on wine20050524. This time, with the advent of Wine 0.9x, somebody made the effort of creating a script for installing multiple IEs on Wine. Works with PCLinuxOS with Wine 0.91, though with some small problems initially.

This is intended for web developers who still need to check their work on IEs different versions. You’ll hate it when your site looks perfectly well in Firefox/Opera, but look broken with 70+% of internet users.

How well does it work? Comparing with this article, conditional comments work well for IE5.5 and 6. For IE5.0, I get the following:

Conditional Comments on IE5.0

A site I’ve created that uses Dean Edward’s IE7 compatibility layer also does not work in IEs 5.0 and 5.5. What happens is that styling becomes disabled when IE7 is loaded.