It would be interesting to run IIS Express on spoon.
Spoon.net runs any software without installing it (incl. IE6/7)
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Re: Spoon.net runs any software without installing it (incl. IE6/7)
#32It's frustrating to be told your browser is unsupported, and not be given a list of the browsers that are. http://spoon.net/UnsupportedBrowser.aspx
It's a poor error message. What they really mean is your platform isn't supported. Windows browsers all seem to work.
Thanks, I'm using linux.
Re: Spoon.net runs any software without installing it (incl. IE6/7)
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yep. Spoon wont last in the wild for long, if it actually delivers.
It's been around since 2007 (or earlier). They just renamed/bundled it. See my longer comment further down this page for details.
"Virtual OS in the browser" sounds like the best business and consumer product. the stuff practically sells itself. If they haven't done much since 2007, I am left to wonder how well do they actually work.
Re: Spoon.net runs any software without installing it (incl. IE6/7)
#34Isn't this the same group that years ago had downloadable virtualized copies of all the major browsers? Ah, yup, it used to be http://www.xenocode.com/browsers/ http://google.com/search?strip=1&q=cache:xenocode.com%2F... They had firefox virtualized in 2007 http://web.archive.org/web/20070810063157/http://www.xenocod... I'm curious if they are technically allowed to distribute IE though. I still have the old versions…
I remember using the xenocode sandbox... It was incredibly useful for web development.
Re: Spoon.net runs any software without installing it (incl. IE6/7)
#35If these guys have been around since 2007 they should really consider putting a bit more effort into marketing.
Re: Spoon.net runs any software without installing it (incl. IE6/7)
#36Isn't this the same group that years ago had downloadable virtualized copies of all the major browsers? Ah, yup, it used to be http://www.xenocode.com/browsers/ http://google.com/search?strip=1&q=cache:xenocode.com%2F... They had firefox virtualized in 2007 http://web.archive.org/web/20070810063157/http://www.xenocod... I'm curious if they are technically allowed to distribute IE though. I still have the old versions…
I remember using the xenocode sandbox... It was incredibly useful for web development.
Apparently they found a better business model with this, or so I assume.
Re: Spoon.net runs any software without installing it (incl. IE6/7)
#37does it work on mac?
Can I use Spoon on my Mac?
Not yet! But we hope to bring Spoon to other platforms soon -- stay tuned!
Note you can run Spoon on Mac using a Windows emulation product such as Parallels or VMware Fusion.
Re: Spoon.net runs any software without installing it (incl. IE6/7)
#38I've been using spoon.net on and off for cross-browser testing for about 2 years. It's a decent product, but remarkably unstable. It's very common by the middle of the day that you I be able to launch an app from within Spoon, and if I look in the task manager, there is around 8 spoon.net processes locked up and using 100 odd megs of ram each. YMMV, but I've had this on many separate installs. To be honest, this situation has gotten bad enough that most of the time I just run separate machines with different IE versions and access them via RDP. When it works, however, it is very impressive.
Re: Spoon.net runs any software without installing it (incl. IE6/7)
#39I use these frequently for browser testing. They are a godsend.
Re: Spoon.net runs any software without installing it (incl. IE6/7)
#40I am running IE6, 7 and 8 in parallel on the same windows install. Properly, without IETester and its glitches. As a web developer, this is a pretty awesome find. Basically, it means that instead of needing to run 3 VirtualBoxes (4, soon), one for each version of IE, I can now run just one, thus saving me a gig of RAM and a lot of performance.
There's also MultipleIEs (http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE) -- I have it installed on a VirtualBox to run IE6 beside IE8. I mostly use it to test jQuery/JavaScript code and it suffices.