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IE5 as well as IE6 in VirtualPC
Authored by: jeffh1 on Feb 01, '05 05:49:04AM

Slightly off-topic; does anyone know whether you can install both IE 5.0 or 5.5 as well as IE 6 on XP? I don't want to have to set up two Windows installations under VPC, but I have heard I should be checking my sites under both IE 5.x and 6.

Thanks
Jeff



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IE5 as well as IE6 in VirtualPC
Authored by: graemeaustin on Feb 01, '05 12:29:03PM

I did a lot of reading around this about six months ago, but I am a bit hazy now.

The bottom line is no: in order to do that (& developers do) you need to be real careful that you don't end up overwriting shared folders.

Whoever told you to test against IE 5.x and IE6 was absolutely right: they are independent builds and can produce some very different results, especially if you rely on css type style sheets.

Good luck.



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IE5 as well as IE6 in VirtualPC
Authored by: tibbeecreek on Feb 02, '05 03:37:29AM

Not to argue - again, I'm not a tech guy - but you can test concurrently with IE6 on the same machine.
Just do a search on Google for IE 5.1 Standalone - or check the Microsoft page - you can download and install both 5.1 and 5.5 while retaining 6. But again, they MUST be the standalone versions.
Another oddity, though, is that the 2 standalone versions are ACTUALLY IE6 - they've just been modified by M$ to mimic the behavior of the older browsers.

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