Hello:
> Hi i wish to install internet explorer 6 and 5 on my computer so i can
> test my sites on these browsers, i already have internet explorder 7
> installed so when i try to install IE 5 and 6 it wont let me ! is there
> any way round this ?
Did you just say Internet Exploder? :) I love that.
Officially, there are no ways to install several versions of IE on the
same computer. There are some underground ways of installing IE6 and
IE7 on the same computer, and I've seen those work in the past, but a
friend of mine recently did that and some JavaScript and Flash would
make his browsers crash, and sIFR elements would display double, so it
wasn't much of an advantage because the browsers did not display the
same as they would standalone.
Microsoft advises that you use a virtual machine to test your code in
multiple versions of IE. Their Virtual PC program is a free download,
although you will need a license of Windows 98 or newer (XP will work
fine) that you can install on this virtual machine if you want to run
Internet Explorer 6.
> I've also installed firefox to view my sites on,
> is there any other popular browsers i shoud be testing also ? And any
> golden rules when designing for multiple browsers as i was supprised
> how different browsers displays my site so differently !
I'd say that most Mac users use Safari, so you should download that,
as well <http://www.apple.com/safari/>. Safari and Opera often display
sites similarly, although there are some occasional discrepancies, so
I would download Opera as well<http://www.opera.com/> (I like using
Opera for casual browsing anyway).
As for designing your sites cross-platform design, a lot of that comes
from case-by-case experience, but in my experience, the more you
develop to standards, the easier it will be to get a consistent design
among several browsers. Internet Exploder (I'm going to use that name
more often!) sometimes requires hacks in order to behave, though.
______________________
Jonathon VS
E: email@jonathonvs.com
W: www.jonathonvs.com
------------------------------------
================= Posting Guidelines ==================
http://preview.tinyurl.com/37zx2b
=======================================================
Come and join us on Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2699020125
=======================================================Yahoo! Groups Links
<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/adobe-dreamweaver/
<*> Your email settings:
Individual Email | Traditional
<*> To change settings online go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/adobe-dreamweaver/join
(Yahoo! ID required)
<*> To change settings via email:
mailto:adobe-dreamweaver-digest@yahoogroups.com
mailto:adobe-dreamweaver-fullfeatured@yahoogroups.com
<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
adobe-dreamweaver-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
