[snowyswebsolutions]

Just going to share this so no one else has to experience it.

Starting up my own business and opening very soon, and i've been testing all my sites religiously on every browser to make sure everything is spot on.

To test such things as all versions of IE there are numerous tools out there to help... Don't get em! I have currently been using IE tester and other such programs but the other day after going to see my business adviser he loaded up my site to get some information and the site was all over the place. He was using IE6 which is no excuse, but I had checked it 3hour prior the meeting with these so called tools and was fine. The most embarasing thing that can happen to you I'll tell you!

So what i thought i'd do is get an old pc, partition it 8 times and stick a version on each space and that will do the trick... wrong, IE automatically replaces 2 files with the ones on the other partition... So.. good old Microsoft came to help...

If you need to do any testing dont go using any other work around apart from separate PCs, or Microsoft's Virtual PC and there list of IE images, the only way to guarantee success
Virtual PC 2004
IE6, IE7 and IE8 images

Hope this may help all

[Wickham]

Agrred!

I still use an old Time computer from 1998 with IE6 for testing and general backups, it still keeps going even though the monitor blinks a bit.

I still use an XP PC from 2002 as my main computer but it's been very heavily used with lots of extra browsers and programs so it's on its last legs with some registry corruption.

I've just bought a new Vista PC with IE8, but now I'm told that Windows 7 will be out soon and Vista is useless, so perhaps I should have waited.

I never thought I had the skill to set up a virtual machine for IE6 and I never trusted the special programs like IEtester as I think some just "emulate" various IE versions so they probably don't get it right all the time. Microsoft presumably encrypts the IE browser code, so how can they possibly get it right?

There are useful sites like Browsershots which actually use the other IE versions and lots of other browsers, but you can only see what a page looks like, you can't test drop down menus, etc.

[snowyswebsolutions]

Wickham, on Jun 16 2009, 08:17, said:

Agrred!

I still use an old Time computer from 1998 with IE6 for testing and general backups, it still keeps going even though the monitor blinks a bit.

I still use an XP PC from 2002 as my main computer but it's been very heavily used with lots of extra browsers and programs so it's on its last legs with some registry corruption.

I've just bought a new Vista PC with IE8, but now I'm told that Windows 7 will be out soon and Vista is useless, so perhaps I should have waited.

I never thought I had the skill to set up a virtual machine for IE6 and I never trusted the special programs like IEtester as I think some just "emulate" various IE versions so they probably don't get it right all the time. Microsoft presumably encrypts the IE browser code, so how can they possibly get it right?

There are useful sites like Browsershots which actually use the other IE versions and lots of other browsers, but you can only see what a page looks like, you can't test drop down menus, etc.

I've tried and tested windows 7 and is very nice piece of software... not very useful when there's no drivers out there for it yet lol.

Totally agree, lucky just bought this bad boy off ebay 6 months ago, quite a speedy PC so i can run 2 virtual PCs at the same time. Bit of a pain though.

[comparewatches]

I've almost given up with this. I thought testing in other browsers would be enough, and use Multiple IEs from TredoSoft for just that (on my XP machine). Alas, it isn't enough. Not only do IE6, IE7 & IE8 render sites differently, they also appear to render differently again depending on the MS OS they are on. So you need:

a box running Win98 with IE6
a box running WinXP with IE6
a box running WinXP with IE7

and so on and so on (add your combinations of Win2K, Vista and presumably 7 too). I'm sure MS would just love me to have 24 boxes but it's just not an option. Here's to the death of IE6

[snowyswebsolutions]

comparewatches, on Jun 16 2009, 09:39, said:

I've almost given up with this. I thought testing in other browsers would be enough, and use Multiple IEs from TredoSoft for just that (on my XP machine). Alas, it isn't enough. Not only do IE6, IE7 & IE8 render sites differently, they also appear to render differently again depending on the MS OS they are on. So you need:

a box running Win98 with IE6
a box running WinXP with IE6
a box running WinXP with IE7

and so on and so on (add your combinations of Win2K, Vista and presumably 7 too). I'm sure MS would just love me to have 24 boxes but it's just not an option. Here's to the death of IE6

Just a lil thing i came across
Kill IE6

p.s. Virtual PC also lets you boot up in most operating systems