[LRUG] Best way to use Windows IE on Snow Leopard?

[Paul Carey]

I've used http://crossbrowsertesting.com/ in the past with success.

The draw latency can be a bit painful, but if your testing is of the
smoke test variety and mostly ensuring that things aren't horribly
broken, it works nicely.

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Jon Gilbraith
<jon at professionalnerd.com> wrote:
> I also saw layout strangeness when I tried Multiple IE a few years ago.
>  Perhaps naively I assumed that if people were still using it then that
> might have been improved upon.
> I admittedly don't tend to test IE all that thoroughly but I've since used
> IE tester and found that sufficient for basic testing.  I imagine though if
> you wanted to do any serious digging you'd have to have the actual browsers
> in order to use the developer extensions.
> http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage
>
> On 28 April 2010 09:53, Will Tomlins <will.tomlins at unboxedconsulting.com>
> wrote:
>>
>>>> On Windows, you might want to avail yourself of MultipleIE:
>>>> >  http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE
>>>> >  This lets you install multiple versions of IE going back as far as
>>>> > IE3.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I've been burned in the past by Multiple_IE behaving differently to the
>>> various versions of IE installed, from memory there were some edge cases
>>> where things that should have been broken in an old IE version mysteriously
>>> worked (which made me think an underlying DLL had been upgraded and thus it
>>> didn't represent a true IE5/6 setup any more).
>>>
>>> Suffice to say, it rendered the whole exercise a little pointless if I
>>> couldn't rely on it to catch my bugs.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Agreed... One thing if you really want to use multiple IE - It doesn't
>> support cookies!  I once wasted 3 days on a project trying to find out why a
>> cookie wasn't being set correctly in IE6 only to find that it was being set
>> correctly in IE6.
>>
>> Will
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