I need to test the styling of my web in both IE8 and IE9.
If I install IE9 then it will upgrade into IE8, So is there any way to install both IE8 and IE9 ?
Use a Virtual PC for testing on older IE.
Microsoft built a set of VHDs with different variations of OS/IE which do not requires activation. But these images will expires after a few months and you will need to download a new set.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=11575
Try IETester is a great tool for web developers. You can check Browser Compatibility for Internet Explorer Versions from 5.5 to 10
Thanks for your help, Right now I got a way to test in IE 7, 8 and 9. after installing IE 9, When we press F12 for developer tool, there's a option for Document mode. There you can have all IE 7, 8 and 9 to test your website.
Related
I'm trying to find Safari 8 for Windows as I am programming a website and I want to see if it all works properly in the Safari browser.
I got Windows 8 and the Application Server and the database both run locally on my PC right now.
Is there a way to test the website on Safari 8 without having a Mac or iPhone?
Thanks!
Latest version of Safari for Windows was 5.1.7, then they discontinued the Windows version.
But if you want to test how your website renders under Safari, you can use online emulators like Browserstack.
Flash player doesn't work in explorer 8 ( Windows 7 64 bit ) , I can't load the pages which use adobe flash. If I disable flash plug-in, the pages can be loaded but naturally without flash animations . It doesn't make auto updates. Chrome works without problem. What can I do ?
You could try upgrading to a more recent version of Internet Explorer. IE8 is over six years old.
Updating to IE9 didn't work but I updated later Flash. Version 11.1.102 works properly on IE9
I used the following line to emulate IE10 as IE7 in Windows 8 professional machine.
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" />
If I use this piece of code in a sample html, it worked fine and emulated as IE7. I observed value 7 using alert box to print : "document.documentMode".
But, if I use the same code in my project, it emulates as IE10 only. The value 10 has displayed in alert box.
There are no more meta tags except this. This code is working fine with IE7, IE8, IE9 which are emulated as IE7 only.
Can any one tell me in which case it would fail to emulate.
I often have to test projects in IE 7–10 and have found the emulation meta tags to be very inconsistent.
I recommend downloading a free VM for each version of IE (7, 8, 9, and 10) from Microsoft's new modern.IE website. You can simply open each VM in Parallels, VMware, or VirtualBox and you'll immediately be in a clean version of Windows 7 with the appropriate version of IE installed for you.
Download VMs for any version of IE you require here: http://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools#downloads
Bonus: They even give you a simple cURL command to download each VM. In your case, you can download a VM of Windows Vista with IE 7 installed with the following command:
curl -O "https://az412801.vo.msecnd.net/vhd/IEKitV1_Final/VMWare_Fusion/IE7_Vista/IE7.Vista.For.MacVMware.part0{1.sfx,2.rar,3.rar,4.rar}"
I have a site that was designed mostly for IE 8, but we've now discovered that some of our clientele use IE 7 and even IE 6 as well. Unfortunately, because of what I'm assuming are CSS issues, these pages don't look the same in IE 7 as they do IE 8. I was wondering if there were any tips or things to avoid when develop a site to be cross-browser version compatible. The main problem in IE 7 is the position of items in the navigation menu. The elements seem to be pushed to the right in IE 7 when compared with IE 8.
The link for the site is here
I would love to post the html and css but I'm new and can't really figure it out. Please let me know if you need any other info. If anybody had any ideas or thoughts, they would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Google "ie conditional stylesheet", its a pain, but it works. Then setup some virtual machine(s) with the main targets you want to test. Alternatively, I believe that the recent versions of Visual Studio for web development ship with some tooling to see a comparison between how the different versions of IE would render a page.
Is it possible to have two windows of IE8, one in IE8 browser mode and another one in IE7? When I work with IE, I don't want all my windows to be affected when I change the mode to test a specific page in IE7.
You can use IETester.
IETester is a free WebBrowser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Windows 7, Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process.
I didn't try it but you should be able to do it with maxthon (using the split view) and a plugin.