All of my development is done on Ubuntu Linux, so testing things with Windows can be a bit of a chore. I’ve got VirtualBox running my Windows XP installation with IE7 for testing, but what about IE6? It’s a dying browser, but some testing has to be done in it. Running two versions of IE can seem to be quite the chore, but really all you need is the IE6 Standalone Installer.
I mainly wrote this post because I noticed so many places where linking to an older place on the browsers.evolt.org website. There where some scripting and PHP errors on their page since it was being linked to an older location, but the files are still there and the site does work.
Update: It seems that even if you’re using IE6 standalone (from the link above) conditional comments will still report it as 7.0 or, I assume, whatever version you have install. You can verify this by going to About in the Help menu. So, if you really want to test IE6 you’re probably going to want the Trendsoft installer. Interestingly, this will also display the wrong version number in the About dialog, but behaves as IE6 in regards to conditional comments, cookies, etc.
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