just tried and its god awful, it looks like Windows 98, even a simple site gogole.com resulted in tons of flickring, apaprently cause of javascript which is dead slow to execute
well i'm not going to boot into windows just to check rendering of the page. I use parallels but it annoys me as well, cause i really don't know how to access my local server on mac from within parallels. So i needed this option to work :(
Mate, there's too much happening to rely on it for any sort of testing surely?
I'd be sorting your your "local server" access issue in Paralells if I was you.
Have you tried their support forums?
I read somewhere recently that Parallels is no longer the Windows enabler of choice for OS X (even though Apple seems to be promoting and flying the Paralells flag), can't remember the name of the one that is out-shining it at the moment.
I use VMWare Fusion to run IE on my mac (it's necessary for Online banking and my corporate webmail to play nice) and i tend to find it works absolutely fine...does occasionally decide to spawn somewhere in the region of 50 windows but I think that's a VMWF bug not an IE one.
@MySchizoBuddy: to use your local server on the Mac from IE/parallels: - Launch network preferences. - Look at the the interface named "Parallels Host-guest"; its IP is the one you want to use. default is 10.37.129.2. If you are running Mamp, Apache default to port 8888 so the full address is 10.37.129.2:8888, Mysql is 10.37.129.2:8889
You can change every setting in your files to use these addresses because you can reach it from Mac side as well
/etc/hosts on OS X as well, but depending of version it might not be used without some more setting. Works out of the box in leopard. You still need to add the port if non standard: myvanilla.com:8888