Webmasters do not like the Microsoft Internet Explorer because of its inability to comply to web standards and the changes in various version that make it extremely hard to code a website that looks the same in every version of Internet Explorer. Testing the websites in various versions was not that easy in the past because only one version of Internet Explorer could be installed on a operating system at once.
Some web services like Browsershots, standalone versions or virtualization was used to test a website in various Internet Explorer versions. This could be a thing of the past with the release if IE Tester (via Ajaxian), a standalone application that provides access to the rendering and javascript engines of Internet Explorer 8 beta 1, Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 5.5.
A basic tab driven browser interface is provided that can display a website using each version of Internet Explorer on a per tab basis. It comes with a few additional controls like back and forward buttons and access to the Internet Options.
The most interesting feature by far is the ability to display tabs next to each other to be able to compare them on the same screen without having to switch between tabs. The software is an early alpha release with several problems like Java instances not working or Flash not working in IE6. It still works pretty well for most websites that do not make use of advanced scripts.
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I’ve used this for awhile and it’s worked perfectly for me.
Very nice, appreciate it. Gonna download it right away.
As I mentioned on Dion’s site:
Minimum requirement : Windows Vista or Windows XP with IE7
I’m about to test this in wine…
As a Linux user I have found IEs 4 Linux webpage and installation – it uses wine, but unlike regular wine applications you dont risk messing up your regular wine setup as each version runs in their own “virtual windows sandbox”.
Currently they have IE 5, 5.5 and 6 as stable installations but they also offer a new beta version that also installs IE 7.
Not limited to Linux, should run on any system capable of running wine (even Mac OS X).
http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page
NOTE! As it says in their webpage too, you should NOT use IE for navigation, not even running under wine where messing up things is more unlikely to happen but certainly not impossible. I personally have set the starting page of IE’s to http://127.0.0.1/ and I never go to anywhere else from it than http://192.168.0.3/ (my development server).