Hi all, I'm having IE6 problems on one of my sites and I really wish I had it installed instead of IE7. Anyone know of a quick way to do this?
This is a good choice but using the VM method is much more reliable, MultipleIE doesn't give a true legacy experience.
TravisO
2009-01-07 21:01:59
Agreed with prior comment. i've had issues esp. with ie6, and been unable to reproduce bygs via multiple ies
Tracker1
2009-01-07 21:18:31
No one can reproduce IE6 bugs (they are hardest to reproduce bugs in history, and brought quite a few people close to madness), better go with a VM ;)
Pop Catalin
2009-01-07 21:51:19
Doesn't work on Vista either
bingle
2009-03-30 08:42:18
Just a word of warning: Although I do love the multiple IEs software, it doesn't seem to affect IE6 in a positive way allowing for some functions to work while they don't work when IE6 is installed without IE7 installed.
Darryl Hein
2009-06-23 22:34:42
The one drawback with Multiple IE is that it doesn't support conditional comments. So if you're using these to include an IE6-specific stylesheet, you'll be stuck.
Graham Clark
2009-07-03 12:58:31
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A:
Download Virtual PC and set up a bunch of them for testing with various browsers/OS's. Once set up, this makes it trivial to test on IE6,7 and 8, various Firefox flavours, Konqueror, Opera, Safari, etc...
See Samuel's answer for a helpful VPC image in getting this started:
Eclipse
2009-01-07 20:34:11
What about licensing for the Windows images? My solution works for Windows without worrying about licensing. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/421945/possible-to-degrade-from-ie7-to-ie6-for-debuggin-purposes#421988
Samuel
2009-01-07 20:44:36
Sure - I elided the details of setting up or downloading the VPCs, since that will vary based on your requirements, but your link to the IEAC image is certainly a great time-saver.
Eclipse
2009-01-07 20:56:35
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A:
This works fine for me: Multiple IE
Edit: looks like the minute it took me to find the URL was enough for 3 people to beat me to it..wow
rodbv
2009-01-07 20:36:01
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A:
Download Microsoft VirtualPC. Then download any of the files in Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image. The second download contains four VHD (virtual hard drive) files which have:
- XP SP2
- IE 7
- XP SP3
- IE 6, IE 8 Beta 2
- Vista SP1
- IE 7
Samuel
2009-01-07 20:40:51
+1
A:
I recommend always testing your sites using BrowserShots. You can see how your site looks across multiple browsers, with multiple versions, on multiple operating systems. You can do something like 50 tests a day on their free service.
Soviut
2009-01-07 20:50:47