Hi, i have some problems with testing my websites in multiple browsers. Firefox, Opera, Chrome and Safari are easy to go, but the different versions of IE drive me crazy. I've tried "Spoon Browser Sandbox" and the "IE Tester" so far, but they are very unstable and often crash. Is there any easy to use solution to test my design in IE8, IE7, and IE6? I don't want to install each browser on virtual machines with Virtual Box and so on. Does any one know a nice tool for this problem? Thanks a lot, zarbic
Best solution for me, especially since I moved to windows 7, has been to run XP inside Sun Virtual Box, and use it for testing 5.5, 6 & 7 - update it to IE7 (don't let 8 go in), and use the tredosoft IE6 and 5.5 standalones. I run 8 on the host desktop, and all the legacy ones on the guest OS. You don't need a bunch of separate installs/VM's, you really only need one - 5.5, 6 & 7 can run stable alongside each-other on XP - it only really becomes a problem when you throw 8 into the mix... Though be certain 7 is running native and you are not trying it's standalone, as that can really screw things up in 6 and 5.x.
Use the code below <head> <meta http-equiv=X-UA-Compatible content=IE=7> </head> This code make IE8 Compatible with IE7.
@deathshadow Thanks a lot for the advice. I will try the MultipleIE software from Tredosoft. Looks good so far. @m7md_cis Thanks, but that is not an option for me.
Quite frankly if you have to resort to that, there's probably something fundamentally flawed in your HTML and/or CSS. Which would be time IMHO to throw it out and start over from scratch instead of shlepping along decade out of date coding techniques and throwing endless magic bullet nonsense at it. See my opinion of IE conditionals (which I say don't use for CSS)