Geoff Pack wrote:
Sure. But if you are only testing your own sites, and not surfing the web with
them, then it shouldn't be much of a risk.
Assuming the site hasn't been hacked, there should be ZERO additional
risk beyond just being connected.
Peter Ottery wrote:
fwiw, I forgot about testing in IE4 about 3 years ago. I still like to
make things look ok in IE5.0 but if some text is butting up
against the edge of a container due to it not supporting some float
issue or something, i dont worry about it. Its usually a better story
with
Peter Ottery wrote:
Peter Firminger wrote:
Not at all recommended on any machine you care about.
Just for my own peace of mind tho - they're only a security issue when
you have launched the program right? so if i'm launching them (old
standalone IE5 5.5) once a month to *only* test pages
Mark Harris wrote:
I can think of 2 secure ways to use IE/windows to test webpages:
1 run a webserver on a separate box _inside_ your firewall and install
your pages there for testing - stack a firewall between the systems if
you need to test that.
2 run VirtualPC (or some other windows
Standalone versions of IE 4 and IE 5 are available at
http://browsers.evolt.org/?ie/32bit/standalone. These will work even if you
have a later version of IE installed.
cheers,
Geoff.
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Rhys wrote:
But with the implementations in ie6 and the ones to come in ie7 perhaps its
time to finally stop worrying about ie 4/5
you're the only one that can take on that issue and make a decision
for *your* site. Different sites require different decisions. Examine
your logs and weigh them
But they may make your system vulnerable as they are not patched. There's a
very good reason Microsoft doesn't publish these for developers or anyone
else.
Not at all recommended on any machine you care about.
P
Standalone versions of IE 4 and IE 5 are available at
@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: RE: [WSG] css for ie4/ie5
But they may make your system vulnerable as they are not
patched. There's a
very good reason Microsoft doesn't publish these for
developers or anyone
else.
Not at all recommended on any machine you care about.
P
Standalone versions of IE
Peter Firminger wrote:
Not at all recommended on any machine you care about.
Just for my own peace of mind tho - they're only a security issue when
you have launched the program right? so if i'm launching them (old
standalone IE5 5.5) once a month to *only* test pages that I've
created - I'm
Yeah, the main risk is in the OS/Browser integration thing. And, since
those versions are standalone, they're safer than IE6... plus your
usage patterns for it will be different.On 10/14/05, Peter Ottery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just for my own peace of mind tho - they're only a security issue
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