retain both IE6 and 7?

[jass]

Happy New Year to all.

I have just upgraded IE6 to IE7.
Is it possible to retain IE6 if I have downloaded IE7?
I need to view the effect before uploading my webpage.
Thanks.

[codeexploiter]

I don't think it is possible to retain IE 6 and IE 7 in a single Windows OS. You can install two different version of Windows and can install IE 6 in one and IE 7 in another.

[mike_p]

As I've just discovered, if you use the


<!--Force IE6 into quirks mode with this comment tag-->

hack at the top of your page, IE7 will behave just the same as IE6!
(in quirks mode, not in compatability mode)

Hope this helps!

Mike

[jass]

Thanks to both codeexploiter and mike.


if you use the


<!--Force IE6 into quirks mode with this comment tag-->

hack at the top of your page, IE7 will behave just the same as IE6!
(in quirks mode, not in compatability mode)

Mike, would appreciate if you could elaborate further : "at the top of your page" -------which part of the page?

Many thanks in advance.

[mike_p]

Mike, would appreciate if you could elaborate further : "at the top of your page" -------which part of the page?

The line before your doctype declaration.
(I think the theory is that the comment will cause IE6 to ignore the doctype declaration, causing it to use quirks mode. I've realised that it also works for IE7 and that quirks mode in IE7 is the same as in IE6)

[jscheuer1]

You can get a 'stand-alone' installation of IE 6 from evolt.org:

http://browsers.evolt.org/download.php?/ie/32bit/standalone/ie6eolas_nt.zip

I have one and several of the earlier versions as well. I have IE 7 installed as the official IE browser.

There are some limitations with the ie6eolas browser, as it is called, (most notably from my point of view is that it chokes on the alpha opacity filter). But, it is a useful tool for checking many things in IE 6 without having to resort to booting up the old machine that I have around that still uses 6 as its primary Explorer.

Another notable limitation with all of the stand alone legacy IE browsers is that when using IE conditional comments in your code, they respond as if they think they are the installed version on the computer.