On 11 May 2012, at 09:33, Lane Brooks wrote: > I developed a simple registration web page for a non-profit fundraiser. > I have a virtualbox installation of windows xp that I run out of linux > to check functionality on IE, but I have only been verifying in IE8. I > just received word of a user having problems on IE7, though. My page is > pretty simple, so I thought I was safe from needing to figure out how to > install different versions of IE for testing, but now it looks like I > need to. Given that web development is not my area of expertise and > given that it has been probably ten years since I have used windows more > than just occasionally, I was hoping people in the area of web > development could offer insight on how to install and test with multiple > versions of IE. > > From my google searches, it seems different versions of IE cannot be > co-installed, but I have found sights offering executable downloads that > supposedly include all the IE versions. They seem more like Trogan > Horses to me. Other sites seem to indicate you need to use a different > virtual machine for each version of IE you want to test with. If that is > the case, I can clone my current virtual machine, but then how do I > downgrade IE? The information I get from googling is contradictory and > hard to know who to trust. Is there not some sort of Microsoft issued > developer package with all the versions of IE that you can co-install on > one machine? If not, how do Microsoft employees verify their web pages > across their multiple browsers? > What if you were to detect IE and if found display an unobtrusive message that their browsing experience may be impaired by the use of their current browser. Then suggest a link or two for more acceptable browsers. ;)
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