Viewing ie6 on xp with ie7

dazsly · 10 Jul 2008 at 10:01

Hi there, I know this is an annoying problem that effects us all, but is there any way to view content on a pc that has installed ie7 and ie6 so I can make sure that my web is displaying correctly in both. I have created a seperate ie6.css file but cannot see where the problem with the divs pushing down is occuring, I know it is most likely something to do with padding bug, I have padding and margin set to 0,0 in the container div. I keep having to use a windows 2000 pc in our office, which is not practical

Thanks

~J~ · 10 Jul 2008 at 10:10

I use Virtual PC with different OS's and browsers. Takes a while setting it up but once there I can check cross-platform within minutes.

dazsly · 10 Jul 2008 at 10:31

~J~ said:
I use Virtual PC with different OS's and browsers. Takes a while setting it up but once there I can check cross-platform within minutes.

Hmm good idea, although I need a quick way this week really.

JIM_BOB7813 · 10 Jul 2008 at 10:43

http://browsershots.org/

There's a daily limit, so select only the ones you need ^^

dazsly · 10 Jul 2008 at 11:10

JIM_BOB7813 said:
http://browsershots.org/

There's a daily limit, so select only the ones you need ^^

Thanks I will give it a go.

I tried it, it does not work correctly. I check the ie6 on my win2000 pc downstairs and it looks different to the screenshot that the website takes.

boycee · 10 Jul 2008 at 11:20

Forget emulators.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...90-958F-4B64-B5F1-73D0A413C8EF&displaylang=en

Microsoft are kind enough to supply a free virtual pc with windows SP 2 and ie 6. This is the only 100% sure way to test with ie6. (assuming you obv don't have it already installed)

dazsly · 10 Jul 2008 at 11:35

boycee said:
Forget emulators.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...90-958F-4B64-B5F1-73D0A413C8EF&displaylang=en

Microsoft are kind enough to supply a free virtual pc with windows SP 2 and ie 6. This is the only 100% sure way to test with ie6. (assuming you obv don't have it already installed)

Nice one mate, thats what im after.

Sagalout · 10 Jul 2008 at 12:30

Virtual PC is soo00 2007

We use this now:

http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage

Gman · 10 Jul 2008 at 12:57

at work I use http://tredosoft.com/multipleIEs

It'll install i.e 3 through to 6 and leave your IE7 alone. work fine for me so far.

dazsly · 11 Jul 2008 at 10:09

Thanks guys, I will try them out.

Ekim · 11 Jul 2008 at 12:44

Gman said:
at work I use http://tredosoft.com/multipleIEs

It'll install i.e 3 through to 6 and leave your IE7 alone. work fine for me so far.

This is what I use, tis extremely handy!

Draeger · 11 Jul 2008 at 21:53

Multiple IE is a very handy web dev tool.

A pity they haven't released a version that will work under Vista OS.

There's a "sort of" workaround for it, but its a bit of a PITA.

Nice app for anyone running XP though.

Sic · 12 Jul 2008 at 01:51

Sagalout said:
Virtual PC is soo00 2007

We use this now:

http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage

I use this or multipleIE depending on my mood in a VM (Mac user

) - very handy, although obviously young software. Just wish there was a DOM inspector for IE6 :/

Augmented · 12 Jul 2008 at 12:09

I'm not very trusting of any of the workaround solutions, like MultipleIEs or IETester, simply because they don't reproduce a 'real' production environment like a virtual machine install does. Meaning you can't be confident in validating bugfixes. MultipleIE I've found in particular to be pretty buggy with javascript, like simply refusing to even run any .NET Ajax stuff (not that I recommend using that anyway).