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.
