browser detection

using browser detection and stand alone v6 IE

[A2webgurl]

Hello--

I'm trying to detect IE 6 & 7 using:

<!--[if gte IE 7]>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/ui-design/screen_ie7.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 6]>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/ui-design/screen_ie6.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<![endif]-->

my stand alone version of IE 6 will follow the IE7 style sheet. When I look at the 'about this browser' I see that it is actually 7.0. How can I best see how my IE6 style sheet is correcting the issues?

Has anyone run into this? There must be a work around.

Thanks in advance for your help!
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[SuzyUK]

see an article entitled "Taming Your IE Standalones" for a registry amendment that is required to make you conditional comments be understood by the standalones

[swa66]

Did MSFT stop distributing the free (but timebombed, so you have to download it regularly) virtual machine image with an old browser in it?

I'm using different clones of a (licensed for virtual use) XP image (on a mac, but that's not the important part) in virtual machines to test the different versions of IE.

Since both virtual PC and the image is free, why not use it ?
And you can be sure no library that came with the more recent browser acts different from the old ones that came with the original browser.

BTW: I'd be very careful with "if gte IE 7", it seems IE8 might be more standards compliant than IE7, and the way to get that is to get fully rid of "gte IE7" as it'd be an argument for MSFT to make IE8 as broken as IE7 if we use that...