I downloaded Virtual PC and a pre-built VM from MS the other day for IE6 Testing:
http://www.microsoft.com/Downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=21eabb90-958f-4b64-b5f1-73d0a413c8ef&displaylang=en Expires December, but avoids license hassles, finding that XP disk etc. I think an option there is also Vista etc Also MS Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition is free and provides very good IE integrated JS debugging after some (documented on internet) fooling around with settings. They're all big hits though as despite MS being really slow on the internet uptake they still seem to expect you to have fiber to your desk. Biggest hassle with CSS I found is that doing: <div class="box"> <div class="top"></div> <div class="middle"></div> <div class="bottom"></div> </div> The top middle and bottom don't map to '.box .top', '.box .middle' etc just '.top', '.middle' so after design working in IE7, FF2 & 3, Safari what have you then went back, put in IE6 comment: <!--[if lt IE 7]> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/ie6hacks.css"/> <![endif]--> Then added id's to the div's causing problems and fixed styles in ie6hacks.css. Once I'd figured out this was the way to go took a very short time indeed to fix up the templates. Also used yahoo's yui to do a reset at top of page. Cheers, Steve On 9/10/2008, at 7:15 PM, Steve Boyd wrote: > > +1 for virtualisation > > It also pays to design using really simple html/css and avoid using > any css that doesn't work cross browser. And use a css framework, if > only for its browser reset feature. > > While this isn't a substitute for testing in 3 different IE's, it does > at least largely cut out having to debug your css which can eat up a > lot of time. > > > On Oct 8, 11:18 am, matt_thomson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I used to use multiple IE's for 6/7, until I launched a site that I >> had only tested in the multiple IE-IE6. It turned out the site was >> fine in multiple IE, and broken in the real IE6, and I only found out >> after customer complaints. >> >> So then I used two hard drive partitions, with two XP's, which was a >> hassle as I had to reboot a lot. >> >> Now I have a laptop with IE6, and my PC with IE7, works great. >> >> With IE8 soon to release, it seems my only choice is to have 2 >> laptops >> and a pc (desk is getting pretty crowded), or two have two partitions >> on my laptop, and reboot a lot. >> >> Has anyone found a better way? > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
