MSN Explorer testing

any tool to test browsers like the MSN Explorer?

[henry0]

This is strange a new client is telling me
that a friend of his cannot see his new site
(PHP & MySQL) by using MSN
I did test it in many browsers and have no problems
just only in NN4.7 a slight table symmetry difference
Although it loads fine
that person is telling me that it does not load at all?
Do you know of a way to test in a MSN environment?
Thanks

[korkus2000]

Not sure how to test it, but it could be the rating system used by msn. I had msn explorer at one time and if you up the rating system then sites that don't use a special tag are just hung.

[Chico_Loco]

Have you checked that your HTML code is validating?

Perhaps there's a missing closing tag somwhere which is preventing MSN Explorer from showing the page yet doesn't affect other browsers.

[robert adams]

MSN explorer is just IE branded with MSN.

If it works in IE , it should work in MSN IE.

luck,
robert

[henry0]

Thanks all
Korkus has an interesting point, never heard about it before
can you dev the topic a bit which tagging do you ref to?

Now as mentioned MSN being IE offshoot it should not lead to that problem.

I think that Korkus is on the right way
but which tag should be added?

regards

Henry

[korkus2000]

Here is somemore info on it.

[microsoft.com...]

I found out about it because my wife turned it on and my sites just gave me a white screen and said done. MSN use to not have it on loaded, but MSN explorer is not just IE. It has a lot of add on that are set.

here is msn's PICS tag

<meta http-equiv="pics-label" content="(pics-1.1 &quot;http://www.icra.org/ratingsv02.html&quot; comment &quot;Single file v2.0&quot; l gen true for &quot;http://www.msn.com&quot; r (nz 1 vz 1 lz 1 oz 1 cz 1) &quot;http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html&quot; l gen true for &quot;http://www.msn.com&quot; r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0))" />

Here is more info from the ICRA
[icra.org...]

[henry0]

very constructive thanks Korkus