Can anybody recommend a good tool for emulating IE6? Rather not have to go and install an old copy of XP somewhere.
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People generally use VMWare, or another virtualisation tool, to do this. At least where I work :)
Noon Silk
2009-08-19 13:48:14
Cheers. That's a pretty massive download... Might have to wait until tonight.
Paddy
2009-08-19 13:51:53
I would also recommend this. Nothing can be more like IE6 than IE6 :) Only downside is the timelimit on these images. If you're running Windows 7 you can just create a virtual Pc of XP and install IE6 and run it from your desktop
Tommy
2009-08-19 13:54:41
I agree to recommend this, but from time to time I come to think that the IE6 image with approx. 600MB will be for a very long time by far the largest browser binary available (perhaps only topped by the IE7 download from the same page)...
Boldewyn
2010-02-05 14:06:09
+12
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IETester allows you to install IE versions 5.5 -> 8 on a single machine.
Mark
2009-08-19 13:50:16
+3
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If you are running a Windows OS, you can install MultipleIE. It will allow you to run IE6 as a standalone.
http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE
Not sure what your OS is though.
Jon
2009-08-19 13:50:56
Just like to point out on Vista, this causes IE6 to be recognised as IE, so you'll end up testing how your IE7 styles work in IE6, and not how your IE6 styles work.
Macha
2009-08-19 13:52:17
Great installation, been using it for a year or so now for XP and it works great.
Zoidberg
2009-08-19 14:02:17
+4
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Microsoft Expression Web Super Preview (which is now part of Microsoft Expression Web 3) has the capability to show you how a page would render in IE6, also has some nice features to overlay an IE7 render or an image so you can see where those 1 pixel discrepancies are occuring
benophobia
2009-08-19 13:52:35
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https://browserlab.adobe.com/ gives you an image of your site in various browsers. Not a real world experience but handy nonetheless.
deadlyhifi
2009-08-19 14:24:52
+5
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http://spoon.net/browsers/ Spoon lets you create web-hosted versions of your existing Windows apps that run instantly from your web site, with no install. Spoon has a gallery of browsers that you may launch including:
Microsoft Internet Explorer 8, Internet Explorer 7, and Internet Explorer 6 Mozilla Firefox 3.5, Firefox 3 and Firefox 2 Apple Safari 4 and Safari 3 Google Chrome, Opera 10, Opera 9
Felix H. Cat
2010-01-31 17:59:15
+1
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Litmus lets you test your site in dozens of different browsers.
Ziggamorph
2010-01-31 18:04:39
+1
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I found recently that you can do this quite nicely in windows 7, using XP Mode. You need two virtual hard drives set up, but you can then create shortcuts on your win 7 desktop to 'open' IE6. There's a good walkthrough of how to do this here:
http://articles.sitepoint.com/article/ie6-ie7-ie8-win7-xp-mode/1
Paddy
2010-07-27 11:52:31
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On Windows 7 you can download XP Mode, which gets you a fully-licensed version of XP. It integrates nicely with windows 7, and it never expires like the free VPC images.
Gabe Moothart
2010-08-19 20:17:39