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Older Browser Render Simulation

Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 4:15 pm
by chris12295
I read somewhere about a program that will simulate a rendering of a webpage in almost any version of any browser but I can't remember where I read it or what the program was called. Anyone know?

Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 4:43 pm
by brendandonhue

Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 12:18 am
by matthijs

Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 4:38 am
by Kieran Huggins
What you'll likely really want is to test the functionality of your site in each browser... screenshots only go so far.

I personally have working, portable IE versions 5.5, 5.01, 4.01 and 3 to test on, as well as IE 6, 7, Firefox (covers all current geckos), and Opera. The only big one I miss out on is Safari, but good coding practices go a long way. I will sometimes boot PearPC to test in Safari, albeit fairly slowly.

Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 5:03 am
by matthijs
That's absolutely true.

For IE versions: http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE and http://browsers.evolt.org/?ie/32bit/standalone

Most other browsers can be run next to each other without problems.

Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 5:21 am
by Kieran Huggins
Thanks for the link matthijs, I couldn't remember where I got them!

Another fine resource, if you prefer to keep IE 6 installed but still want to test IE 7 (also from tredsoft):

http://tredosoft.com/IE7_standalone