I have been using http://ipinfo.info/netrenderer/index.php for hacking IE6 and IE7 into submission.
In general I develop on linux with Chrome. Then check appearance on Firefox and Safari in Mac, which (usually but not always) look much the same. I have IE8 running on an old XP box. So I tehn use my own Windows box to check IE8. At that point I use netrender to test IE7 and IE6. Those two almost always require adjustments, or conditional statements. But I just noticed today the visual output I get at netrender for IE8 does not match the display I get when running IE8 directly, on XP box (whose browser has been updated to IE8). So that makes me wonder if netrenderer is worth anything at all. I could try to set up virtual OS instances with vmware. Perhaps that's my next step. But now I wonder if that output will be reliable. Perhaps a developer really needs multiple boxes, each with its own OS. What is your take? ....also, I (think) I have noticed IE6 on old low-resolution laptops sometimes looks substantially different than IE6 running on an XP box plugged in to a high-resolution monitor. So perhaps a person needs an N cubed testing routine: N-OS systems times N-resolutions times N-browsers. What is the professional debugging way proceed? -- /* Colin (Sandy) Pittendrigh >--oO0> */ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [[email protected]] 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/
