Feedback needed on Multiple_IEs 4

[Sleidia]

http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE

Do you use it?
If so, did you find it safe for your OS?

Any info would be appreciate since I'm kind of afraid to mess with my OS

And do you think the renderers are 100% accurate?

Thanks

 

[Foamcow]

Yes, I use iy under XP Pro

Seems to work fine but throws a dialog box up if the page contains Flash.
Not a big problem though.

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[Sleidia]

Thanks

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

My PC at work had IE6. I ran the full IE 7 installer and upgraded it, and then used Multiple_IE to install IE 6.

IE 7 works fine, but IE 6 constantly gives me JavaScript error messages, and is generally slow.

Apart from that, it's fine (I'm running XP Pro).

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[Sleidia]

Thanks

Well, considering the js errors you get, how could this application be a trustable testing environment then?

 

[BabyJeffy]

I think the right answer is that it can't. If you have the resources, setting up a virtual host (using something like VMWare ot VirtualPC) would probably be the way to go. That way you can have IE6 in one virtual host and IE7 on your own system.

Personally I have the best of both worlds in that I use Parallels on MacOSX to run WindowsXP... I have 2 virtual machines set up... one with IE6 and one with IE7. I have Firefox 2 and Safari 3 on both of them. They can run seamlessly with the MacOSX, so I can actually view a page in all browsers across both Windows and MacOSX!

This site is another approach (which allows you to see an IE 7 view of a URL):

http://www.danvine.com/iecapture/

And this one (which allows you to see a Safari view of a URL):

http://www.danvine.com/icapture/

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[Sleidia]

Too bad I don't have the resources for multiple OS.

As for danvine.com this mere sentence gave me shivers :
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[Vragabond]

I use multiple IE to test pages in IE6, IE5.5 and IE5 on my WinXP SP2. I find them to work OK for what I need them (to simply show the page in that browser). The 6 shows the same as real IE6 installed on some other machines.

The only important difference is that conditional comments do not work. Conditional comment will recognize the version of the main IE installed in the system in all installed IE versions. On my machine that would be IE7, if I test it in IE7, IE6 or IE5. So you have to insert all IE6 specific stuff without comments and add those at the end.

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[BillyRayPreachersSon]

I thought Multiple_IE got around that by injecting the real version somehow? I wouldn't swear to this, but I thought it did...

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[Sleidia]

Thans, Vrag

Well, I never use conditional comments and don't intend to.

So, if I decided not to use multipleIEs, what version of IE would you advise me to use for testing? I'm on IE6 now. Isn't it too early to switch to IE7?

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

That's up to your client-base, surely?

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[BabyJeffy]

I would revisit your decision to never use conditional comments. They are the only way you will get validating pages with IE specific css (without resorting to unstable hacks that are no longer supportedin IE7). I wrote an FAQ on them and they really are a no-brainer: faq215-6625

I wouldn't say that IE7 wasn't "ready" to be adopted... I think it's as stable and reliable as the other browsers. I would suggest that you stick with IE6 if you can't use a virtual machine for IE7, though... because there are so many differences between standards and IE6 that it's not worth ignoring.

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