Install Multiple Versions of IE for testing

andymilk | June 28, 2007

All web developers should know that old versions of Internet Explorer are very bad at following standards. They were the last of the big browsers to adopt image swapping early on, they’ve had their own flavor and interpretation of the Document Object Model over the years, and they don’t allow for the installation of multiple versions on one PC. This last detail has made it hard for developers who don’t have 2 or 3 PCs lying around to test web site UIs with older versions of IE. I’ll admit, the newest version of IE (7), isn’t too bad. They’ve caught up to Firefox with tabbed browsing and following the DOM much closer, but it’s still slower and clunky, in my opinion.

Back to the point of this post. Some wonderful developer out there has created this installer that allows you to have multiple versions of IE (all the way back to 1.0) installed on your machine at once. I just installed it and it tore my CSS layout to SHREDS, but now I can fix it real-time.

Go grab this thing. It’s wonderful.

http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE