Best Tool for Testing Ie from a MAC - Without a Pc

How to view your site with internet explorer if you have a mac?

I have nothing but good things to say about browserling.

Web Dev on MacOSX, how to check IE compatIbility?

You should have a parallels windows install to test IE and Firefox. That will show you exactly what a windows user would see.

How can I test my web pages in Microsoft Internet Explorer on a Mac?

Update: Microsoft now provide virtual machine images for various versions of IE that are ready to use on all of the major OS X virtualisation platforms (VirtualBox, VMWare Fusion, and Parallels).

Download the appropriate image from: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/

On an Intel based Mac you can run Windows within a virtual machine. You will need one virtual machine for each version of IE you want to test against.

The instructions below include free and legal virtualisation software and Windows disk images.

Download some virtual machine software. The developer disk images we're going to use are will work with either VMWare Fusion or Sun Virtual Box. VMWare has more features but costs $80, Virtual Box on the other hand is more basic but is free for most users (see Virtual Box licensing FAQ for details).
Download the IE developer disk images, which are free from Microsoft: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...
Extract the disk images using cabextract which is available from MacPorts or as source code (Thanks to Clinton).
Download Q.app from http://www.kju-app.org/ and put it in your /Applications folder (you will need it to convert the disk images into a format VMWare/Virtual Box can use)

At this point, the process depends on which VM software you're using.

Virtual Box users

Open a Terminal.app on your Mac (you can find it in /Applications/Utilities) and run the following sequence of commands, replacing input.vhd with the name of the VHD file you're starting from and output.vdi with the name you want your final disk image to have:
```
/Applications/Q.app/Contents/MacOS/qemu-img convert -O raw -f vpc "input.vhd" temp.bin
VBoxManage convertdd temp.bin "output.vdi"
rm temp.bin
mv "output.vdi" ~/Library/VirtualBox/VDI/
VBoxManage modifyvdi "output.vdi" compact
```
Start Virtual Box and create a new virtual machine
Select the new VDI file you've just created as the boot hard disk

VMWare fusion users

Open a Terminal.app on your Mac (you can find it in /Applications/Utilities) and run the following commands, replacing input.vhd and output.vmdk with the name of the VHD file you're working on and the name you want your resulting disk image to have:
```
/Applications/Q.app/Contents/MacOS/qemu-img convert -O vmdk -f vpc "input.vhd" "output.vmdk"
mv "output.vmdk" ~/Documents/Virtual\ Machines.localized/
```
This will probably take a while (It takes around 30 minutes per disk image on my 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo MacBook w/ 2Gb RAM).
Start VMWare Fusion and create a new virtual machine
In the advanced disk options select "use and existing disk" and find the VMDK file you just created

How can I test in IE while developing under Mac OS X?

All you need is the correct IP address that VMWare uses to access your mac, then you can access it like this:

http://192.168.1.2:3000

And test it just fine. I would tell you how to find it but I have more experience with Parallels.

EDIT Ok, it seems you need to open your network connection information in the guest operating system (Windows) and grab the "Gateway" address which should be the IP address that VMWare is using to connect to your Mac. Simply add :3000 to the end of it and you should be able to access your Rails site from Internet Explorer (be sure to put the http:// on as well).

How to test a website for Retina on Windows without an actual Retina display?

about:config hack on Firefox

You actually can using Firefox:

Go to "about:config"
Find "layout.css.devPixelsPerPx
Change it to your desired ratio (1 for normal, 2 for retina, etc. -1 seems to be Default.)

Screenshot:
Sample Image

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Refresh your page - boom, your media query has now kicked in! Hats off to Firefox for being awesome for web developing! Heads up, not only will the website now be boosted to twice the size, the Firefox UI will also be doubled. This doubling or zooming is necessary, as that's the only way you'll be able to examine all the pixels on a standard pixel ratio screen.

This works fine on Windows 7 with Firefox 21.0, and also on Mac OS X with Firefox 27.0.1.

If you're not using media queries and other more advanced logic (i.e. you're feeding everyone the HiDPI images), you can just zoom in with your browser to 200%. The Chrome emulation is a helpful tool as well as it kicks in media queries, but because it prevents zooming, you can't examine image quality.

Zooming on Firefox & Edge

Currently on Firefox and Edge, if you zoom it triggers dppx-based media queries. So this easier approach may be sufficient, but be aware that the functionality is reported as a "won't fix" bug for Firefox, so this could change.

Is IE Collection reliable tool for testing with various versions of Internet Explorer?

IE isn't designed to be installed side-by-side with other versions. Most of these "all-in-one" testing tools use a trick of the Windows loader that lets you override system DLLs with DLLs in a local directory. Then they package up a random subset of Windows DLLs from different operating system versions and different IE versions and drop them into some UI. The fact that they happen to seem to work in this manner is a coincidence and not reliable. There will be errors and other strangeness, and probably crashes if your target operating system is far enough from the IE version (e.g. IE6 on Win7) and your webpage is significantly complex.

So, to be clear, no, don't use these tools because you can't rely on them to give you an accurate result. If you want to know how your page looks in a given IE version, use the IE App Compat VHDs available free from Microsoft here.

How can I test IE10 on Mac?

That page no longer appears to be up-to-date.

However, Microsoft's developer website provides free download links to test Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer (versions 8 through 11) using virtual machines. You can manage them locally using VirtualBox or another virtualization software tool.