Installing Multiple Versions of IE

Web Dev With Multiple Versions of IE

Test Your Websites in IE 3 to 7 Without Jumping Hoops

It took a week, after Microsoft released Internet Explorer 7 for general consumption, to receive website bug reports from some of our clients. One of our menu designs relies on patching IE's lack of compatibility for css :hover psudo class being applied to anything but <a> tags. This is not the case with IE 7, so we had to quickly change the Javascript IE detection function to apply to IE 4-6 only.

How wonderful it would be to test websites in development stages on multiple versions of IE without having to boot to a separate partition or KVM switch to a different system.

In 2003, Joe Maddalone discovered a way of installing stand-alone versions of IE. Although helpful, the solution required a lot of stuffing around. Enter Yousif from Tredosoft; Yousif developed an installer based on Joe Maddalone's solution. The windows installer allows the user to install multiple versions of IE from 3-6.

Thanks to these guys, we now have a simple means of installing multiple versions of IE.