How to check Intranet in IE7

Nikumba · 16 Apr 2009 at 11:44

We have a sprawling intranet designed for IE6, we want to look at moving to IE7 on most of our machines, however we are not sure if the Intratnet will fully work on it, without going to each page and there are a LOT of them.

The intranet is created by a peice of VB software, that takes word docs from one folder, merges them into the templates and spits them out to the webservers.

I know there are online services that will do this, but is there some software we can run internally that will check all our intranet pages and make sure they will work fine in IE7?

Thanks

Kimbie

Tripnologist · 16 Apr 2009 at 12:04

I wish it were that easy.

If you end up finding something (I don't have high hopes that you will), let me know. Would save my company loads of time browser checking all the sites we build.

suarve · 16 Apr 2009 at 12:16

Have just started a new job and found a cool little piece of software called IE Tester. You can open tabs and choose what browser version you want to use. Checks all versions from IE 5 to IE 8.

There';s also a very good site (that I can't for the life of me remember the name) that allows you submit an url and its gives you a screenshot of how it looks in every browser known to man. It talkes 15 mins to check a site, but is free.

Nikumba · 16 Apr 2009 at 12:20

suarve said:
Have just started a new job and found a cool little piece of software called IE Tester. You can open tabs and choose what browser version you want to use. Checks all versions from IE 5 to IE 8.

I will look at that, but that wont help the problem of checking the whole of our Intranet which has grown in size over the years

Kimbie

suarve · 16 Apr 2009 at 12:22

Well you can use that IE tester just like a normal browser. So you can open say 3 tabs (IE 5, IE 6, IE 7) and browser the site a page at a time, whilst switching between tabs.

Tripnologist · 16 Apr 2009 at 12:32

I use IETester myself and it's quite handy but I'm quite sure the OP wants something that will check each and every page automatically and let him know if there are any problems.

unknowndomain · 16 Apr 2009 at 12:54

PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THINGS GOOD!

Do not make it in IE7 as IE8 will be out soon, have it work in IE8 then release it with IE8 rather than making all us designers have to put up with years more torment with IE7!

Thanks

Tripnologist · 16 Apr 2009 at 13:04

1. IE8 has already been released.
2. If you're having a lot of trouble with IE7, you're doing something wrong.

unknowndomain · 16 Apr 2009 at 13:10

Tripnologist said:
1. IE8 has already been released.
2. If you're having a lot of trouble with IE7, you're doing something wrong.

I mean't just in the long run it seems better to avoid it, no I haven't had a lot of trouble but I am assuming IE8 has better compatibility with web standards, and it seems better to use that now as it would mean not having to make as many changes for IE8.