Sent by Patrick James on 20 November 2006 16:04
Web Dandy Design wrote:
> You can run both IE6 and 7 on the same machine. I upgraded to IE7 then
> installed IE6 as a standalone
> (http://browsers.evolt.org/?ie/32bit/standalone). I've had them running side
> by side along with IE5.5 for a couple of weeks now and have had no problems.
If you go here:
<http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE>
You can download IE 3, 4.01, 5.01, 5.5 and 6.0 all for Windows of course and
these come with an installer which puts them all in one folder. You can run
these as well as IE 7.
I am in fact a Mac user, but I run Windows in a surprisingly good
virtualisation thingmy called "Parallels". I have all these versions of IE in
there.
There are a few glitches but nothing very serious. I find for example that I
cannot use "Favourites" with IE6 but as the URL auto-complete still works
fine then it doesn't matter to me that as the current site I'm looking at is
almost always in the history as I am working on it :)
One of the things which strikes me about IE 3.0 is the weird squiggly line
across the toolbar. It looks really funny today that graphic I think but I
guess MS put it there to make the browser very distinctive perhaps from NN.
Although I've always used Macs I'm sure I've used IE 3.0 on Windows but must
have not noticed that squiggly line, or at least at the time it must not have
appeared so peculiar.
It is mildly interesting for me to look at web-sites with those early IE
browsers though I don't think it is very relevant. I notice that IE 3.0 will
show my own pretty simple site but without styles at all, whereas I think IE
4.01 just comes up with some statement effectively saying that it can't
understand the mark-up at all.
--
Patrick
<http://www.patrickjames.me.uk>
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