On Jul 28, 2006, at 7:39 PM, Al Sparber wrote:
From: "Roberto Gorjão" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Right now, I work with XP SP2 (home edition, sigh!) and IE6. I
have IE3, IE4, IE5 and IE5.5, all as standalone versions.
The standalone hack should only be used as a last resort by web
designers who cannot afford the luxury of dedicated testing
machines or a VPC setup. If one does do the hack they need to make
sure to also hack the registry to ensure proper version
identification. There have been cases reported of OS corruptions
after repeated installs and uninstalls. While a lot of people use
the standalone hack, it should be stated that it is a hack and does
have potential problems.
Al, I installed twice the IE 7 beta 2 & 3 on my Mactel powerbook,
Parallels Workstation XP SP2, for two very specific projects that
client wanted IE 7 safe proof, after that I uninstalled. Few weeks
ago, someone mentioned a more stable IE 7 standalone, so I installed,
but it was full of probem, many functions don't work, the very
obvious one was it didn't allow me to run the validation check on
contentquality site. My tiger OS recently is having some system
errors however I can't even tell if they were caused by IE 7 repeated
uninstallation, because the XP is running in the Pareallels software.
I only use the XP for browser testing, and when I run the system in
Parallels, I don't get any errors.
tee
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