Comments on: All IE Browsers Standalone On Same PC

By: Newton Wagner » Blog Archive » Rodando múltiplas versões do Firefox no Windows

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:52:06 +0000

[...] Com uma pesquisada rápida no Google, acabei achando esse link no Sinistras, para rodar versões diferentes também do Internet Explorer. [...]

By: Martin Gjesdal

Martin Gjesdal — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 15:00:20 +0000

Hello Jesper!

It might be fixed by now, but look at http://www.tjkdesign.com/articles/conditional_comments.asp and search for “using multiple versions”. Here is an extract:

If you’re using multiple versions of Internet Explorer on the same PC, be aware that these versions identify themselves as the most recent version installed. So, unless you’ve implemented Manfred Staudinger’s solution, you’ll have to take this into consideration when testing documents that include CC. This means that you’ll have to trick the standalone version with a “fake” expression; for example, you’d use “6″ instead of “5″ and then change it back to “5″ once testing is done. For the same reason, you should refrain from giving feedback to people asking for a “site check in IE 5″, because your standalone version would not pick up an important HTML block from the markup.

-Martin

By: Jesper Rønn-Jensen

Jesper Rønn-Jensen — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 14:17:54 +0000

Martin,
could you be more specific on which IE5.0 restraints you mean?

By: Martin Gjesdal

Martin Gjesdal — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 13:23:41 +0000

Be aware that restraints in IE5.0 may not show, if you for instance use IE6 as base. This may fool you! :-(

By: Jesper Rønn-Jensen

Jesper Rønn-Jensen — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 15:43:59 +0000

Reader,
what actual CSS rendering details do you mention?
Please provide details here, because that would be of great benefit to the readers on this blog.

As far as I know, the CSS rendering is accurate, conditional comments don’t work, but using built-in functions (as bookmarks, certificates, etc.) will give problems and might be shared between the IE versions.

Please prove me wrong, and provide more details on the bugs you are referring to.

By: Reader

Reader — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 14:05:04 +0000

I’ve noticed a difference between actually installed versions of IE and some of these standalones, notably IE6. The standalones have not accurately reflected what an installed version renders. I can see the difference by using another computer with IE6 or a VMWare image, for example. The standalone comes close, but ultimately fails on a number of CSS rendering details.

By: Jesper Rønn-Jensen

Jesper Rønn-Jensen — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 20:11:24 +0000

IE team has made a virtual PC image available with IE6 and IE7 for testing purposes. Note that this runs as a virtual PC (which I presume will run slower and require more time to startup than the Tredosoft installer that I link to in the article). IE6 and IE7 running on a single machine. Also note that the virtual PC image is time limited to April 2007

By: Newton Wagner » Arquivo » Rodando múltiplas versões do Firefox no Windows

Tue, 24 Oct 2006 15:02:22 +0000

[...] Com uma pesquisada rápida no Google, acabei achando esse link no Sinistras, para rodar versões diferentes também do Internet Explorer. [...]

By: Mads Buus

Mads Buus — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 07:29:24 +0000

I find running different Internet Explorers through Wine (for Linux) very useful. Theres even a nice installer: ies4linux. IE7 can currently only run as a rendering engine inside IE6, but work is progressing nicely (trouble with WGA). see screenshot of border chaos demo which IE6 fails, but IE7 passes. The installer actually creates multiple registries, so the browser versions don't collide. Flash, Shockwave etc. plugins work. This is good (news) for those who would rather develop on non-windows but who a forced comply with IE bugs ;-)

By: phil76

phil76 — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:19:27 +0000

brilliant, thanks for the link.
something like this would be very useful for safari as well …