Testing Sites Against IE 6, IE 7, and IE 8 (beta 2)

Microsoft has updated the Virtual PC hard disk images that let you view your sites in IE 6, IE 7, and IE 8.  This is handy for scenarios like mine where a client's Web application officially supports only IE 6 but I want the latest and greatest on my own machine.

Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image:

 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=21eabb90-958f-4b64-b5f1-73d0a413c8ef&DisplayLang=en#filelist 

Note: The VPC images expire in January, 2009.

Ken

Published Friday, August 29, 2008 11:18 AM by Ken Cox [MVP]
Filed under: , ,

Comments

# re: Testing Sites Against IE 6, IE 7, and IE 8 (beta 2)

Friday, August 29, 2008 12:22 PM by dukebaby

I've found DebugBar's IETester to be very hand for this scenerio.

It is a simple program that simulates all versions of IE.

www.my-debugbar.com/.../HomePage

# re: Testing Sites Against IE 6, IE 7, and IE 8 (beta 2)

Friday, August 29, 2008 3:00 PM by Joe Chung

I would rather test against the real thing than a simulation.  Hacking multiple versions of IE to work in a single OS instance also isn't reliable.

Leave a Comment

(required) 
(required) 
(optional)
(required)