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Any advice will be appreciated. I have various versions of NN and Mozilla, but from what I understand only one version of IE can be installed at once. It's becoming a pain . . .
Thanks,
Matthew
You could also try a Virtual PC type of setup...
Bill, did you read through the entire thread, not just the first msg on how to install them?
Been doing that for years with windows emulation on my Mac. I just install multiple copies of windows with the IE and other browsers I use.
Testing on cross browser and cross platform is done in multiples windows in real time, no compression nor rebooting is required.
installing multiple versions of IE is still a hack that doesn't leave you with fully functional versions to play with
I have installed IE4, 5, 5.5, and 6 - and they all work very well. And yes, everything is handled in real-time.
The only thing is - you can't install the browsers... (and you don't have to).
All you have to do is copy the files from the CAB files mentioned in the thread, add an iexplore.exe.local file. Then it works. CAB files can be opened by WinZip or PowerArchiver.
Bill, did you read through the entire thread, not just the first msg on how to install them?I certainly did...several times...and I spent a good bit of time extracting various combinations of .cab files on several different machines, but my results were under-performing, buggy versions of IE that at best would show me what page layouts looked like, but wouldn't let me select form elements (like textboxes), and they crashed a lot. I don't think I ever got IE4 to work at all...
Also you can fireup little Linux ISO's directly like damnsmalllinux.org (or Knoppix if you want a full blown system simulation) within Windows and run the Konqueror browser which is about as close to emulating Safari as you can get on a PC.
It takes a little investment in time (and money) to get it all setup, but it will let you make really good and consistant looking sites. Difference between being a pro and an amateur IMHO.
Now if there just was a way to run Mac IE 5.x on a PC. Unfortunately the last mac emulators made don't do PowerPC code, so I can only test up to IE 4 on OS 8.6(ick).
[edited by: amznVibe at 9:26 pm (utc) on Nov. 6, 2003]
VMware is the only way to fly for this kind of serious testing.
Ok, let's see...
I currently have IE5, 5.5, and 6 running simultanously on WinXP. And, then I just use sizer to resize the window. It lets me test all the features in all browsers. I can compare the browsers side by side, and "switching" is merely a matter of firing up another browser window.
Explain to me how I would benefit from installing VMware to replace my current solution...
My point about the screen sizes is that the 800x600 window in VMware is exact and the structure inside the window is identical to a real PC with a real screen that size. If you are at 1280x1024, even if you set the window to 800x600, your internal browsing area is way off compared to your real 800x600 visitor because of your font sizes and toolbar/scrollbar pixel sizes. Sometimes that matters.
identical to a real PC with a real screen that size.
...if they have the exact same settings you do. Personally, I've set the actual window size for 800×600 to slightly less than 600 height, to accomodate for the task bar.
Still, a lot of things can be different from one setup to the other. At work I always use a double size task bar, for example. But, as long as I'm somewhere in the ballpark of the target I'm satisfied ;)
