One of the biggest obstacles for web designers/developers (or at least for me) is to cater our interface for those who are still using Internet Explorer 6 and below. Whether we like it or not, there’s still a big crowd out there hanging on IE6 or worst, IE 5.5 and IE 5.
To develop and test on these outdated browsers, it’s tedious. Here’s how you can install different versions of Internet Explorer (let it be IE3, IE4, IE5, IE5.5, E6 or IE7) on Windows, Mac and Windows.
IE3, IE4, IE5, IE5.5, IE6 on Windows – MultipleIEs
MultipleIEs allows you to install all different version of IEs, except IE7 on Windows. Everything works with a little bit of drawbacks:
- Developer tool bar from Microsoft WILL NOT work in IE6.
- Sometimes IE5, IE5.5 and IE6 crash unexpectedly.
- Multiple IE doesn’t work on Windows Vista.
IE7 (Standalone version) on Windows
MultipleIEs did not come with IE7, to add IE7, download Internet Explorer standalone Installer.
IE5, IE5.5, IE6 on Mac – ies4osx
The better alternative to install Internet Explorer on Mac is to use Parallel, VMWare, or any other application that allows you to install Windows on Mac. However if you are not ready to pay just to get IE running on your Mac, try ies4osx. It’s supports running IE5, IE5.5, IE6 on Mac. Read more about ies40sx.
IE5, IE5.5, IE6 on Linux
Folks at simplehelp has a step to step guide on installing different version of IE on Ubuntu Linux using IEs4Linux. Click here to read more.
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Posted by hongkiat in How-To, Windows Tips , at 06.17.08 |
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Comments
Jake Rocheleau June 17th, 2008
Multiple IE’s doesn’t work with Windows Vista. Anybody have any solutions that work with Vista?
ReplyFelix June 17th, 2008
The only thing that bothers me on using “emulated” IE is that they don’t render PNG hacks correctly.
ReplyFelix Ker June 17th, 2008
I think I only require Firefox. Heh.
Replyhongkiat June 18th, 2008
@Jake Maybe this site can help you.
Replyhongkiat June 18th, 2008
@Felix I’ve been using this iepngfix, and it helps me be rest assured that PNG transparency works in IE6 on any platform.
ReplyAhTim June 18th, 2008
Good tips. But don’t think many people will do that. What do you think?
–blog for dream–
Replyhongkiat June 18th, 2008
@AhTim Designers and developers will need this.
ReplyPosicionamiento web June 20th, 2008
I use this tool since 2007 and it is very useful to my company.
ReplyBoltClock June 22nd, 2008
My computer is unfriendly to Wine. So that means development for IE on Linux is a no-go for me :(
At least I have MultipleIEs here.
ReplySantiago June 26th, 2008
For Vista, or not, I recommend IEtester, its great!
Replyالعاب October 13th, 2008
For Vista, or not, I recommend IEtester, its great!
ReplyPaul February 17th, 2009
… Well, nobody WANTS to support Vista. It is the most unstable, difficult, and bloated OS to roll along.
ReplyBen June 19th, 2009
I found that IE Tester crashed al the time on my window partition on my mac, I found this to be better, it’s the ie collection and it has all the versions you’ll ever need for testing, unfortunately 14% of the world are still using ie6, why I have no idea but firefox is now officially more widley used than ie so it looks good for us developer. Here’s the link:
http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/Internet-Explorer-Collection-Download-105889.html
I hope this helps.
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