IE different versions

[Girard Ibanez]

Anyway to know if your site works in different versions of IE?

Fire Fox is ok as always, it works in IE 7 and IE 6 but at work using IE 6 of a different version, it does not display right.

Here the test site:

http://www.members.cox.net/jane.ibanez/

Can anyone verify it on a IE version or is there a way for me to have a test bed of different IE versions on my computer.

Thanks again for all the help

Girard

[Girard Ibanez]

Ok, I fixed it thanks again

[jscheuer1]

Anyway to know if your site works in different versions of IE?
is there a way for me to have a test bed of different IE versions on my computer.

Thanks again for all the help

Girard

As you may know, you can only have one IE on a given boot partition (generally that means on a given computer). However, there are these 'stand alone' versions:

http://browsers.evolt.org/?ie/32bit/standalone

Really a bit of a misnomer as, they require a higher installed version of IE on the computer in order to work. They are not 100% reliable in either functioning nor in accurately representing the versions that they are supposed to. Most notably, they will see themselves as the installed version of IE on that computer when it comes to IE conditional comments. And, in my experience at least, the IE 6 one running with IE 7 as the installed browser cannot handle filters. Still, they are very useful.

[Twey]

Per boot partition? Are you sure? I can think of no reason for IE to be part of the boot process, even by Microsoft's logic.

And, in my experience at least, the IE 6 one running with IE 7 as the installed browser cannot handle filters. Still, they are very useful.

This is because they are ActiveX-based. Standalone versions cannot handle ActiveX, if I recall correctly (also note that this means no XMLHttpRequest).

[jscheuer1]

Per boot partition? Are you sure? I can think of no reason for IE to be part of the boot process, even by Microsoft's logic.This is because they are ActiveX-based. Standalone versions cannot handle ActiveX, if I recall correctly (also note that this means no XMLHttpRequest).

IE isn't a part of the boot process that I know of but, once you install an IE version on a Windows boot partition, you cannot (at least not without some special measures) install another one without replacing the existing version.

The filters worked fine in IE 5.5 as a stand alone under IE 6. I think it may have to do with a different approach to filters in IE 7. About the XMLHttpRequest - it isn't supported locally in IE 7 (that I know of) anyway and isn't supported in previous IE versions at all.

[blm126]

IE isn't a part of the boot process that I know of but, once you install an IE version on a Windows boot partition, you cannot (at least not without some special measures) install another one without replacing the existing version.

You mean one copy of IE per Windows installation, not boot partition.

[Twey]

once you install an IE version on a Windows boot partition

I can't imagine why this would be the case. I would expect IE to be installed on the main data partition, where WINDOWS/WINNT is stored.

I would think blm126 would be right.

[jscheuer1]

I didn't know you could install a separate instance of Windows without it also being a boot partition. Either way, that qualifies, at least for me, as:

at least not without some special measures

In any case, it is beyond what the normal Windows user would have readily available to them. And, if it's really that easy to do in a normal windows environment, I would love to know how because, I would do it. I'm pretty fed up with these 'stand alone' versions but, use them as they are the best I can easily setup.

[Twey]

Ah. Yes, you can install several Windows versions on a computer and have them all use the same boot partition (which must be a primary partition on the master drive, to my frustration). For this reason, Windows also insists on making the boot partition separate if installed on a slave or SATA drive.

if it's really that easy to do in a normal windows environment, I would love to know how because, I would do it. I'm pretty fed up with these 'stand alone' versions but, use them as they are the best I can easily setup.

I don't believe there is anything better. ies4linux suffers from the same limitations (as regards ActiveX, anyway; the conditional comments work OK). Perhaps something could be done with virtual machines. See qemu.

[jscheuer1]

Sounds like a pain. Can the various Windows installations share any of the same OS files other than the boot files? I mean if I have to install windows and give each installation its own stable of dll's and executables, seems pretty pointless for more than two or maybe three. I currently have four 'stand alone' versions of IE (plus a real copy of IE 6 and of IE 7) to test in and would be looking to expand that selection, not contract it.