September 28th, 2006
If like me you like to have the latest updates or try beta releases of new products you may already have IE7 installed.Although it is important to ensure your website will work on IE7 is released the price you have to pay may be too high. IE7 upgrade is irreversible. Since it renders pages differently to previous versions you will no longer have a way of testing your work in the current IE release (IE6). Also IE7 will not let you view pages on your local machine. You have to upload the pages to a webhost or setup a local webserver on that machine or network.
The solution?
A company called tredosoft has come up with an installer that will enable you to run multiple versions of IE at the same time. This means you can have IE3 all the way through to 7 all on 1 machine - a testers dream.
http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE
I choose not to ever support anything older than IE5 so I installed IE5.01, 5.5 and 6.0 in addtion to my existing IE7 setup. The install couldn’t have been easier and I soon had my websites open in 4 browser versions at the same time.
I only use FireFox for browsing and viewing my designs but when it comes to testing I can now ensure IE6 AND IE7 support
Dave Long
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