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Posted by Ed Mullen on 09/28/38 11:43
Jim Higson wrote:
> Jim Moe wrote:
>
>> Noozer wrote:
>>> Have many of you tried out MS Internet Exploder 7 yet? Any comments to
>>> how it improves upon IE6? How does it compare to Firefox?
>>>
>> Who cares? It will be at least a year before it is released especially
>> since the forever-delayed Vista (4 *years* late and counting) is a black
>> hole sucking up all of the coding talent at Microsoft and its
>> subsidiaries.
>
>> IE6 is our bane for years to come.
>
> The worst bit for me is how difficult it can be to get different versions of
> IE working on the same system. How am I going to test against IE6 and IE7?
>
> Does anyone know of unofficial 'standalone' versions of IE7 that you can
> install without removing IE6? Or, even better, have IE7 working with Wine?
>
>> IE7 will likely be a me-too browser, half a decade late, etc. It is
>> interesting only in that it probably will reduce a development step:
>> 1. Create a page as I envision it using standards compliant browsers
>> 2. Hack the code until IE looks the same.
>
>
You can run multiple versions of IE on one system. I have both IE6 and
IE7Beta on this box. Not all features of IE7 work running it in
stand-alone mode. But I'm only using it for page testing so I don't
really care.
http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2006/02/02/437196.aspx
http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2005/12/28/434132.aspx
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