[OT] Multiple versions of IE on one box for testing

Rails
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Hi,

Normally I’d just give this a try and see what happens. I’m under a bit
of a time crunch at the moment, though, and can afford the loss if
Windows barfs.

I’ve got IE7 but need to test my CSS in IE5 & IE6. Can I have multiple
versions of IE on my system? If so, are there any gotcha’s avoid?

Thanks. And sorry for the noise.

Bill

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On 2/1/07, Bill W. [email protected] wrote:

Hi,

Normally I’d just give this a try and see what happens. I’m under a bit
of a time crunch at the moment, though, and can afford the loss if Windows
barfs.

I’ve got IE7 but need to test my CSS in IE5 & IE6. Can I have multiple
versions of IE on my system? If so, are there any gotcha’s avoid?

Bill,

I did the research sometime back, and no, you can’t. Microsoft makes a
virtualpc instance available for this purpose. Read about it here:

Hope this helps.

Jake

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http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=AZi&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=run+multiple+ie+on+same+machine&spell=1

need more browsers? http://browsers.evolt.org/

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Thanks, Jake. I was afraid of that. Thanks for the link, though. I
appreciate it.

Best regards,
Bill
----- Original Message -----
From: Jake C.
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 2:49 PM
Subject: [Rails] Re: [OT] Multiple versions of IE on one box for
testing

On 2/1/07, Bill W. [email protected] wrote:
Hi,

Normally I'd just give this a try and see what happens.  I'm under a

bit of a time crunch at the moment, though, and can afford the loss if
Windows barfs.

I've got IE7 but need to test my CSS in IE5 & IE6.  Can I have

multiple versions of IE on my system? If so, are there any gotcha’s
avoid?

Bill,

I did the research sometime back, and no, you can’t. Microsoft makes a
virtualpc instance available for this purpose. Read about it here:

IEBlog | Microsoft Learn

Hope this helps.

Jake

5

I use this to test browser inconsistencies

its pretty good so far

From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jake C.
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 12:50 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Rails] Re: [OT] Multiple versions of IE on one box for testing

On 2/1/07, Bill W. [email protected] wrote:

Hi,

Normally I’d just give this a try and see what happens. I’m under a bit
of
a time crunch at the moment, though, and can afford the loss if Windows
barfs.

I’ve got IE7 but need to test my CSS in IE5 & IE6. Can I have multiple
versions of IE on my system? If so, are there any gotcha’s avoid?

Bill,

I did the research sometime back, and no, you can’t. Microsoft makes a
virtualpc instance available for this purpose. Read about it here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/11/30/ie6-and-ie7-running-on-a-single-
machine.aspx

Hope this helps.

Jake

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On 2/1/07, Bill W. [email protected] wrote:

If you have a mac then Parallels plus a few virtual machines (each
with a different browser version) will work very nicely.

–
Zack C.
http://depixelate.com

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Now that’s cool. Thanks, Clayton. I’ll give it a shot.
----- Original Message -----
From: Clayton C.
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 2:53 PM
Subject: [Rails] Re: [OT] Multiple versions of IE on one box for
testing

I use this to test browser inconsistencies

http://browsershots.org/

its pretty good so far

From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jake C.
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 12:50 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Rails] Re: [OT] Multiple versions of IE on one box for
testing

On 2/1/07, Bill W. [email protected] wrote:

Hi,



Normally I'd just give this a try and see what happens.  I'm under a

bit of a time crunch at the moment, though, and can afford the loss if
Windows barfs.

I've got IE7 but need to test my CSS in IE5 & IE6.  Can I have

multiple versions of IE on my system? If so, are there any gotcha’s
avoid?

Bill,

I did the research sometime back, and no, you can’t. Microsoft makes a
virtualpc instance available for this purpose. Read about it here:

IEBlog | Microsoft Learn

Hope this helps.

Jake

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On Feb 1, 2:38 pm, “Bill W.” [email protected] wrote:

I’ve got IE7 but need to test my CSS in IE5 & IE6. Can I have multiple versions of IE on

If you have an old Linux box sitting around you can have lots of
versions of IE:

–
Greg D.
http://destiney.com/

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On 2/1/07, Bill W. [email protected] wrote:

Hi,

Normally I’d just give this a try and see what happens. I’m under a bit
of
a time crunch at the moment, though, and can afford the loss if Windows
barfs.

I’ve got IE7 but need to test my CSS in IE5 & IE6. Can I have multiple
versions of IE on my system? If so, are there any gotcha’s avoid?

Bill,

I did the research sometime back, and no, you can’t. Microsoft makes a
virtualpc instance available for this purpose. Read about it here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/11/30/ie6-and-ie7-running-on-a-single-
machine.aspx

Hope this helps.

Jake

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Hi Zack,

I don’t. But probably will again soon. My first box was a Mac. Before
they came with hard drives :wink:

Best regards,
Bill

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try this:

thats what i’m using. works like a charm.

HTH

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Give this a try:

Has worked well for me.

hth

–

Richard L.

Head of Agile Development, CitySafe

http://citysafe.org … CitySafe

http://thatsprogress.com … The Fitness Community (soon)

http://livsey.org … Blog : Musings of a Rails Developer

From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jake C.
Sent: 01 February 2007 20:50
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Rails] Re: [OT] Multiple versions of IE on one box for testing

On 2/1/07, Bill W. [email protected] wrote:

Hi,

Normally I’d just give this a try and see what happens. I’m under a bit
of
a time crunch at the moment, though, and can afford the loss if Windows
barfs.

I’ve got IE7 but need to test my CSS in IE5 & IE6. Can I have multiple
versions of IE on my system? If so, are there any gotcha’s avoid?

Bill,

I did the research sometime back, and no, you can’t. Microsoft makes a
virtualpc instance available for this purpose. Read about it here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/11/30/ie6-and-ie7-running-on-a-single-
machine.aspx

Hope this helps.

Jake

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http://www.quirksmode.org/browsers/multipleie.html