I'd like to add my two cents to Kevin's suggestions. I've used IE Tester in the past and found it to be convenient, but it isn't always a perfect representation of how the various versions of IE will handle a particular web site. This is especially true when dealing with advanced cookies or Javascript.
Instead, I prefer to use the Virtual PC images made available by Microsoft. The whole setup is free and provides an exact replication of different environments from IE6/XP to IE8/Vista. Virtual PC 2007 (free): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=04D26402-3199-48A3-AFA2-2DC0B40A73B6&displaylang=en Images for IE6, IE7 and IE8: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=21EABB90-958F-4B64-B5F1-73D0A413C8EF&displaylang=en - Quiller 2009/5/21 Kevin Doyle <sharpspa...@yahoo.com> > [snip] > I am having trouble with several things in IE with a site I'm working > on and seek some advice. I'm still grappling with a few areas of css > so the issues may be simple, but I just can't see them! > [/snip] > > ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: > > Hi Dave, > > A couple suggestions for testing and general CSS development. First, > download IE Tester -- it's a kick butt app for testing IE version 5.5 - 8. > Then, download the Firebug plugin for Firefox -- it allows you to play > around with the HTML and CSS right in your browser. > > As a general rule, I develop to Firefox and use conditional comments as IE > CSS hacks to get things to display properly in IE. Conditional comment CSS > hacks allow you to target specific versions of IE or all of them at once. > Use IE Tester to see which versions aren't behaving, then use the IE hacks > to target the problem areas. > > Just in case some of those links don't work in the message board, here are > the links I referred to above: > > - IE Tester download: http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage(it's > in beta, so there are a couple bugs -- still ~totally~ worth > downloading) > - Firebug plugin for FF: http://getfirebug.com/ > - Conditional comment CSS IE hacks: > http://www.quirksmode.org/css/condcom.html > > I hope that helps! > > Kevin > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] > http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ > List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html > Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ > ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
