Running IE6 after IE7 is installed.

[daledavies]

I cant beleive how much luck I have been blessed with this week, I've spent since Monday creating a new website hosting using CSS and I have to say I'm pretty chuffed with how its turned out!

The HTML and CSS both validated after me only having to corect a few things and the website hosting has passed all the accessibility tests I can find. Whats more I only needed 2 conditional comments to get the thing to display correctly in IE7, leading me to feel happy that I'm finaly getting to grips with this CSS business. Something that 6 months ago was a complete mistery to me!

Please excuse my gloating, as you can tell I'm pretty happy with what I've acheived as I've not been doing this for all that long.

The reason I say I've been lucky this week is that the whole time I have been worried about how the website hosting was going to turn out in IE6, as IE7 has totally taken over my pc (although it obvioulsy looks best in FireFox!). It was daft of me to leave it till I had finished the website hosting before finding a machine that still had IE6, but when I checked the website hosting it looks fine! Totally not what I was expecting!

There is a reason for me starting this thread! If there is anyone that doesnt know of this already, I have found a way of having a standalone version of IE6 so that you dont have to keep going round to your mates house to check things on his PC!

Simply follow this link: browsers.evolt.org/?ie/32bit/standalone and download the "ie6eolas_nt.zip" file, unzip it and there you have it, a standalone version of IE6 you can run without the need for installing it!

Now your ring need never twitch like mine did earlier on today whilst IE6 loaded my website hosting! Plus if your feeling brave, you can even get all the versions back to IE3!

[Dave White]

Thanks for sharing your experience.
Good to hear that you new website hosting is working fine with bot Firefox and and IE.Its also good to know that you can revert to the previous versions of IE that will save a lot of time for the designers and developers who can't test their things on different browsers.

[izzetm]

Thanks.
I use Internet Explorer 7 for a month.It is made high security.

[daledavies]

just an update on these standalone versions, version 6 actually reports that it is version 7 when the Help/About screen is viewed. Therefor conditional comments designed for ie6 will not load in this standalone version, only those intended for all versions of ie.

i am unsure as to how much of ie6 is actually running "under the bonnet" here, although some web pages are displayed differently between the two versions.

is anybody able to shed any light on the matter?