IEs 4 Linux News

IEs4Linux 2 is going to be a very very nice software. We are almost there. Beta2 introduces some new features and many bugs fixed. Give it a try. And, please, if you can help me with a program translation (it takes 5 minutes), see this.

Changelog:

• Asking user for a translation if we can’t find one
• Show to the user how he should run his IEs
• Fixed cabextracting DCOM98 (thanks to Pavel Roskin)
• New Czech translation! (thanks to pchovancik)
• Fixed some non-localized strings
• Try to fix this bug (anyone can confirm?)
• Fixed Flash download (they had changed the URL)

Todo:

• How can we deal with translation enconding being different from user enconding?
• Can we symlink ie6 dll files to ie55 and ie5 instead of copying them?

And answering some comments:

• Elliot: Donations are very welcome! Contact me for details
• Johannes: Windows Media Player is not on the plans… sorry 😉
• Alon Bar-lev: I have no idea about both your questions

Well, here it is. Download now the first Beta release of the new IEs4Linux 2.0 . It has many, many improvements. Well, here is a list of new features:

• Now it download IE6 directly from Microsoft (~12 MB against ~80 MB from Evolt)
• IE5.5 and 5.0 are downloaded from Evolt, but not the full versions, the standalone versions (~3MB each)
• Just to emphasize: I reduced the downloads from 250MB to 20MB 😉
• Multi-language IE installations (and multi-language IEs4Linux program)
• Many bugs fixed, such as: vbscript errors, dll wildcard problems, wine o.9.12 support
• Mirror selection for Evolt downloads
• New interface: more flexible, easier and funnier

Download now! I need help with:

• Testing this software
• Writing IEs4Linux translations (see here for details)
• Suggestions to improve this version
• IE5.5 and 5.0 are working as they are supposed to?
• Linux testing on Gentoo, Fedora, Suse, Slackware and others
• FreeBSD testing

I said that IEs4Linux would be using an Graphical Interface on 2.0.Well, I tested many ways to do this (zenity, kdialog, xdialog) and decided to keep it simple. The bash interface I developed isn’t so unfriendly and I think it is better.