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Hello everyone,
I'm running Win98SE and coding my HTML and JS in Notepad.
My question is this........
Is it possible to have , let's say, IE6 (which I have now) but also have IE5.5 - NS 4.x, 5.x etc. browsers stored on my HDD somehow to access and use for testing?
Forgive me if I'm way off base here. I'm no expert like a lot of you good folks here.
If this is achieveable, could someone here explain how I would go about downloading them and storing them... then how to change browsers in "midflight" for testing my codes then back to my IE6 as usual?
Again, I know how scatter brained this post must seem to most here. Just need some help. Thank you all...
-RAY
DaveSW
10-24-2003, 09:50 AM
Netscape and mozilla is simple. Just install to different folders. (custom install prob)
IE, being Microsoft, doesn't allow this. you have to partition your hard drive and create a multiboot environment...
DaveSW
10-24-2003, 09:52 AM
See also the thread titled IE 5, also in the general forum.
havik
10-24-2003, 02:00 PM
I had Netscape 6.2 and 7.0 installed on my comp (98SE) at the same time as DaveSW suggests and it worked with little conflict. I made the upgrade to XP recently and haven't set it up again, yet.
DaveSW
10-25-2003, 05:15 AM
I've got an Win 98ME machine running
Mozilla 1.1
Mozilla 1.4
Mozilla firebird 0.6
Netscape 4.7
Netscape 7.something
Opera 7.1
And IE 5.5
I had to update the shortcuts, but nothing more than that.
I'm currently looking to partition a 20GB drive and put it on my raid controller with all the IE versions on it.
MotherNatrsSon
10-26-2003, 02:06 PM
Get a MAC and Virtual PC and you can have all of the versions of windows you could ever want.....plus have all the MAC browsers too....and if you have OS X all the linux browsers too.......
MNS
"Get a MAC and Virtual PC and you can.... (by MNS)"
MNS,
While I'm sure your suggestion may be a great one, it does not apply here as I stated in my 1st post that I'm looking for a Windows solution. Thank you though.....
havik,
Let us know what happens when you do install your browsers on XP. Thanks....
DaveSW,
Thank you for your input. Much appreciated.
I managed to d-load:
Mozilla "M18" (I'm assuming that means Mozilla 1.8?),
NS 7.1, and Opera 6.06....
Is there a reason why you picked the browsers that you have?
-RAY
spufi
10-27-2003, 09:06 AM
Originally posted by RTR
I managed to d-load:
Mozilla "M18" (I'm assuming that means Mozilla 1.8?),
NS 7.1, and Opera 6.06....
Is there a reason why you picked the browsers that you have?
The most current stable version of Mozilla is 1.5. Download it here. http://www.mozilla.org/
DaveSW
10-27-2003, 10:27 AM
Well, Mozilla has been mostly the same in how it handles the code for quite a few issues (1.1 and 1.4 are usually the same). This tells me what I can expect netscape 7 to do (they're based on the same engine).
Opera is usually good, but occasionally it differs from Moz, so I've got version 7.
IE, well, what can I say lol
5.5 on my designing machine, because it just happened tthat way. However, if 5.5 will render it ok, chances are 6.0 will too. Then I've had to set up other hard drives with other versions of IE to correspond with my customers machines. 5.0 isn't so hot with width:100%. 4.0 is just there.
NS 4.7 is still popular with some businesses, so it's just as well to see how it will look, even if you don't set out to design with it in mind.
Hope this helps
Thank you DaveSW. Helps tremendously!
-RAY