I have a need to run IE6 on my Vista machine that natively runs IE7.
Can someone please help me with set-up / configuration steps?
Thanks,
Dan
Take a look at IETester -- it allows you to test pages in IE 5.5 - 8b2.
Try ie6eolas_nt.zip from http://browsers.evolt.org/?ie/32bit/standalone . I use it on XP; haven't tried Vista.
Just use http://www.xenocode.com/browsers/
You can run older version of IE in Vista and Windows 7 :)
If you have IE7 installed, using Multiple IE's will let you install past versions without any conflicts.
Multiple IE does not work on Vista, you are stuck using a VM of sorts for full IE support. This is critical if you need to test your javascript or debug through CSS.
I managed to use AndLinux + Wine to get this working, but honestly I think the VMWare/Virtual PC/Virtual Box route is simpler.
I've used the multiple IE, but it has javascript problems which aren't their in the normal version.
The IE team advices to use the Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Images. These are virtual pc images with different IE versions.
Supported versions:
IE6 on XP SP3
IE7 on VISTA
IE7 on XP SP3
IE8B2 on XP SP3
For other IE versions you could make your own virtual image.
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I have two magento eshops that worked perfectly in the past on all major browsers except IE 7.
After I installed WINDOWS XP on my computer and accessed my eshops with IE 8, I almost had a heartattack seeing that they aren't working as they should.
Before installing Windows XP I was running Windows 7 and the websites were looking good on IE 8. Now, the same IE version, but on different operating systems, gives me headaches!
Now, can someone explain me how to 'debug' the ie 8 parsing engine for seeing the errors and try to modify the templates?
Thanks.
I want to implement websites using a computer that is running only Ubuntu.
This is not feasible because Ubuntu FireFox displays completely different from Windows FireFox.
This means that I can do things like JS & PHP on Ubuntu, but have to switch to my Windows Computer to (edit and) view HTML & CSS as they appear for most users.
This makes file management too complicated. I have two of everything. And...I don't want to install a server on my Windows machine.
Is there any browser that looks remotely similar between Ubuntu and Windows? I want to stay on Ubuntu as much as possible.
Following the advice from Greg, why don't you install wine and run Internet Explorer from that?
use Wine to run a windows based browser to work with: http://www.winehq.org/
If its layouts and stuff you're worried about have a look at http://browsershots.org/ it allows you to see what a website looks like on many revisions of many browsers on BSD, Linux, Windows and Mac
I have to say you are working on the total wrong idea.
I can easily switch between 20 different themes. I'm currently using either an old Win2000 theme or the olive WinXP theme.
The only way for a non Desktop GUI app is to make your website look good on any computer.
Use CSS to style the input elements. Or better - make the GUI simple enough that the look of the common GUI form controls do not matter.
Everything else should work exactly the same anyway cause the layout engines for Firefox Linux and Firefox Windows are the same.
Google Chrome took special care to look the same on all platforms for font-rendering, etc. But I haven't noticed anything problematic on firefox, either. Have you installed msttcorefonts on ubuntu? That should help.
I agree with Greg. The simplest problem from one OS to another is fonts. While you can installed Microsoft licenced fonts in linux out of the box this isn't the default eg. Arial.
Even then just look at Safari for windows verusus Safari for Mac. Apple has their own implementation of the licenced MS fonts, as such the same font (eg arial) on Windows is not the same as on Mac. This can also be the case on linux if a slightly different implementation of the font is installed.
That aside, all the chrome ( toolbars, buttons, titlebar etc ) are different from one OS to another, so if you're a good developer and try really hard to word your content and fit your layout so that most people don't have to scroll just for two or three lines, then without actually viewing the page in the target OS you're really just doing half the job.
If you can get your head around it, try something like virtualbox and have a set of virtual machines, which you can run one at a time and test fully how each browser will work with your pages. A few things to note: as much as we ALL hate IE6, if your sites are going to be viewed by a company / organisation, chances are they'll still be on IE6, even worse is that there are TWO versions on IE6 which do operate slightly differently, notiable IE6 from XP ( no service packs installed ) and IE6 from XP SP2. Then you've got the default install that is Vista with IE7 ( which can look different and operate differently to IE7 on XP), and the default install in Win7 which is IE8. REALLY importantly is that it is known that some CSS on IE8 in XP is different to IE8 on Vista or Win7.
We (unfortunately) have as part of our testing 7 Win vm's to test just IE, then two for Firefox on windows ( FF 3.0 and 3.x - the latest ) plus two vms for Chrome and two vms for Safari on windows. Admittedly we promise our sites will work on all these browsers in our projects if the client chooses to at an additional cost.
Good luck
Fonts and platform form controls are likely reasons that you're going to see things differ between Linux and Windows. But they can also cause differences between different Windows users or different Linux users, so testing on a single Windows machine isn't necessarily sufficient either. If you're seeing drastic differences between Linux and Windows, it might be a sign that there are things in your design that are unnecessarily dependent on particular text widths or form control sizes.
The background information, libraries and sample code on the Joe Lynds site is really helpful and works fine with XP. There are also other code samples around to help with XP shadow copy.
Advice on using shadow copying from a .NET app running on Vista / Win7 is thinner on the ground. Joe Lynds site offers a wrapper which claims to work across XP, Vista, 32bit & 64bit versions, but we couldn't get it to run on Vista.
Has anyone else been able to crack this?
We are using .Net 3.5
We used the AlphaVSS library with some success.
love sifr - use it all the time...
but i've noticed that it does not replace text in IE 8 64bit version...
works fine in regular IE 8 on windows 7, but not the 64bit version...
for a test, anyone viewing this on a 64bit windows machine please take a look at the demo itself in IE 64bit:
http://dev.novemberborn.net/sifr3/svn/test/distribution/demo
no replacements?
dunno about other versions of IE nor do i know about 64bit vista... this should be looked into as windows7 gains popularity and replaces the rest of the windows OS'...
hoping someone has an answer as this great script is essential to our designs...
thanks!
sank
Flash is not supported on IE x64.
just found this out myself:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/000/6b3af6c9.html
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We need to test a website in both IE6 and IE7. We've had bugs appear running on actual windows machines that aren't visible under vmware (?!), so we have an actual windows laptop to do this - but only one. Is it possible to install IE6 and IE7 side-by-side in such a way that they absolutely, positively, behave exactly like they would if there was only one of them? How?
The officially sanctioned way is to use the microsoft-provided Virtual PC installation and VPC images. You don't need additional windows licenses to run these.
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/11/30/ie6-and-ie7-running-on-a-single-machine.aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=6D58729D-DFA8-40BF-AFAF-20BCB7F01CD1&displaylang=en
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=21EABB90-958F-4B64-B5F1-73D0A413C8EF&displaylang=en
Take a look at http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE. Bear in mind that running both side by side is not supported by Microsoft (http://blogs.msdn.com/cwilso/archive/2006/02/01/522281.aspx) and there's no guarantee that they will work absolutely fine side by side - a Windows Update could easily break something and sometimes people find conditional comments don't work properly amongst other things. All I can suggest is you give it a go and see how you get on.
The only really reliable way I've found is to use Virtual PC and have an image with IE6 on it, Multiple IE or IETester don't always work exactly the same as the original versions
If you can publish your pages on the web, you can try http://browsershots.org/
I always use it when I have to test a new layout with almost any browser on the planet.
Virtual PC 2007 is the latest version of VPC. You should use the newer version if you're running Windows Vista. VPC 2004 isn't supported for Vista.
Download page for Virtual PC 2007 SP1
Microsoft Virtual VPC Homepage where you can find the latest version of VPC