Love it or hate it… well… does anyone really love Internet Explorer?

But you have to live with it, at least if you’re doing web development, because it’s necessary to test against it. It’s so buggy that many people code first against it, make their site work on it (given that it has the bulk of the browser market share) and then try to get their site working with other, less buggy, more standards-compliant browsers without breaking their Internet Explorer compatibility.

To make matters worse, you need to be testing not just against one version of Internet Explorer but against several versions of it. And it doesn’t tend to like to have multiple versions of itself installed on one computer.

One way to manage this problem is to run “VMware Workstation” or, if you’re on a Mac, “Parallels Desktop” or “VMware Fusion Mac” and use that software to run instances of Windows, each with its own Internet Explorer. It’s a very resource-intensive solution, better than having to have multiple PCs, but not nearly as good as being able to run them all in one instance of Windows.

Yousif Al Saif has created an downloader which installs multiple versions of Internet Explorer on a single Windows installation.

Now if Internet Explorer just worked properly…

Via: How to install multiple versions of Internet Explorer on your PC - Download Squad
[tags]fusion, vmware, parallels, internet explorer, ie, ie6, ie7, windows, browser, testing[/tags]

|  Print This Post