Multiple versions of IE on one box for testing

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Hi,

Normally I’d just give this a try and see what happens. I’m under a bit of a time crunch at the moment, though, and can afford the loss if Windows barfs.

I’ve got IE7 but need to test my CSS in IE5 & IE6. Can I have multiple versions of IE on my system? If so, are there any gotcha’s avoid?

Thanks. And sorry for the noise.

Bill

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Bill,

I did the research sometime back, and no, you can’t. Microsoft makes a virtualpc instance available for this purpose. Read about it here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/11/30/ie6-and-ie7-running-on-a-single-machine.aspx

Hope this helps.

Jake

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http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=AZi&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=run+multiple+ie+on+same+machine&spell=1

need more browsers? http://browsers.evolt.org/

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I use this to test browser inconsistencies

http://browsershots.org/

its pretty good so far

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If you have a mac then Parallels plus a few virtual machines (each with a different browser version) will work very nicely.

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Thanks, Jake. I was afraid of that. Thanks for the link, though. I appreciate it.

Best regards,

Bill

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Now that’s cool. Thanks, Clayton. I’ll give it a shot.

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Hi Zack,

I don't. But probably will again soon. My first box was a Mac. Before they came with hard drives :wink:

Best regards, Bill

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If you have an old Linux box sitting around you can have lots of versions of IE:

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Bill,

I did the research sometime back, and no, you can’t. Microsoft makes a virtualpc instance available for this purpose. Read about it here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/11/30/ie6-and-ie7-running-on-a-single-machine.aspx

Hope this helps.

Jake

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try this:

thats what i'm using. works like a charm.

HTH

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Give this a try:

http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE

Has worked well for me.

hth

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http://www.quirksmode.org/browsers/multipleie.html