This week’s top tech tool is ‘Multiple IE’ by TredoSoft, which allows you to use multiple instances of different versions of Internet Explorer on a single Windows PC - which is especially helpful for those of us who have to create an IE 6 and 7 compatible website and only have one computer.
The tool allows you to install instances all the way back to Internet Explorer 3, although we wouldn’t recommend trying to make your website HTML compatible that far back!
It’s not the perfect tool - sometimes it renders things slightly wrong, sometimes it crashes and sadly this tool doesn’t currently work on Windows Vista, but it is as close as you can get without multiple machines with multiple software configurations, or a Virtual Machine set-up.
Tags: Internet Explorer 5, Internet Explorer 5.5, Internet Explorer 6, Multiple IE
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February 12th, 2008 at 5:48 am
Nothing wrong with the Virtual Machine route, in fact I think it’s the best way to reliably test multiple versions of Internet Explorer. Another handy (although slow) way is to use something like Browsershots: http://browsershots.org/