Posted by patrick j on 11/03/06 21:00

On Fri, 3 Nov 2006 19:35:27 +0000, patrick j wrote
(in article <0001HW.C1714A7F00818AEFB019F94F@News.Individual.Net>):

> On Fri, 3 Nov 2006 16:04:20 +0000, BootNic wrote
> (in article <8MJ2h.4216$B31.3757@newssvr27.news.prodigy.net>):
>
>> http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE
>>
>> One download Multiple versions, pick which ones you want during
>> install.
>
> That's very useful. I'm reading about it now. I think I will get my IE
> 6 updated to IE7 using the built in Microsoft route then download this
> multiple versions package.

Well, reporting back I've now got the multiple IE package and it is
very useful. My main browser in Windows is now IE 7 but I also have IE
6, 5.5, 5.01, 4.01 and 3.

I think it is only 6 which "really matters" but it is very useful to
have 5.5 and 5.01.

Looking at my own web-site in them [0] is rather interesting. Of the
"pre 6" browsers 3 does the best job simply because it doesn't have any
style-sheet support at all and I think no style-sheets at all is better
than incomplete style-sheet support when looking at a web-site using a
reasonable amount of today's style-sheet facilities.

What gets me about IE 3 is those squiggly lines over the toolbar area.
Gosh, that is weird. I'm certain I've used IE 3 because it really
wasn't that long ago that it would have been the contemporary browser
and although I'm given to Macs living as I do in the real world I do
find myself using Windows quite a lot. I must have encountered those
squiggly lines in the toolbar of IE 3 before but presumably not found
them as bizarre then as I do now :)



[0] narcissistic fellow that I am

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Patrick
Brighton, UK

<http://www.patrickjames.me.uk>

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