Do you know the IE Tester? I'm using it, and it's nice... 2009/3/23 ryan.j <ryan.joyce...@googlemail.com>
> > I thought SuperPreview was aimed more at identifying layout issues, > rather than testing in a native enviroment? > > On Mar 23, 1:50 pm, Martijn Houtman <martijn.hout...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mar 23, 2009, at 1:59 PM, Eridius wrote: > > > > > > > > > I say that friday that IE8 was released so I downloaded it to check > > > it out. > > > I am happy that they did seemed to do at least a few right right > > > and it seem > > > very easy to test for IE8 and IE7 in the IE8 browser (which is very > > > nice). > > > However, after i installed IE8, Multiple IE stopped render > > > correctly (I use > > > Multiple IE to test for IE6 and this is only at work since I have > > > yet to > > > find a way to run IE6 on Vista at home). Do you guys have any tips/ > > > tricks > > > for properly test IE8/7/6 On Vista and XP? I am almost at the > > > point where I > > > want to drop support for IE6 on my own javascript plug-ins because > > > it is > > > utterly retarded to have to main code that works on 3 separate > > > version of > > > the same browser (come on IE6 is over 8 years old, FireFox 1 wass > > > released > > > after IE6 and no one officially supports that). > > > > There's SuperPreview from Microsoft: > > > > http://www.istartedsomething.com/20090318/expression-web-superpreview- > > cross-browser-testing/ > > > > I think it only does IE6 and the IE you have installed on your > > machine. IE8 also has backwards-compatibility mode, which supposedly > > goes into IE7 rendering mode, although in my experience it renders it > > more like IE6. > > > > P.S.: My company no longer supports IE6, unless the customer is OK > > with paying 30% extra development time. It's the easiest solution for > > us ;-) > > > > Regards, > > -- > > Martijn. >
