Ie 8 Emulation On Mac

I currently only have macs for development. My site looks good in the Chrome, safari and firefox but not in IE 8. Normally I'd say too bad, use a proper browser, but that is probab

Solution 1:

1. Install VirtualBox (it's free and good) or another virtualizer (VMWare, Parallels)
2. Convert and use one of these Microsoft VirtualPC VHDs
3. Test

Solution 2:

The only way I know to do this is to run Windows with a program like Parallels and use IE that way.

I would recommend running Windows 7 and IE 9. IE 9 is not only a competent web browser, it can render pages as IE 7 or IE 8 by using the included developer tools.

Solution 3:

Use VirtualBox or VMware with a VM from Microsoft: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/

"Test Microsoft Edge (EdgeHTML) and versions of IE8 through IE11 using free virtual machines you download and manage locally."

Old answer from 2012:

There is CrossOver (proprietary $51). It "allows many Windows-based applications to run on Mac OS X using a compatibility layer". It is based on Wine.

It works OK (JavaScript + Flash). They provide automatic installation for Internet Explorer 6 and 7. For Internet Explorer 8 one more step is required to get what they call a CrossTie.

You can also try WineBootler (free and based on Wine too) but it does not work very well (no JavaScript support).