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IE Tester – see how your web pages look in different versions of IE (Windows Internet Explorer)



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(Post taken from my old blog, Poochycat.com)

Ahh, it seems that I posted this in our MULPROJ days. ^_^

Yesterday I woke up at 6AM. I wanted to go on with my sleep, but I couldn’t. I suddenly remembered that I haven’t tested in different versions of Internet Explorer the layout design of the website I had to submit for MULPROJ that day. It’s like God woke me up to remind me that I had to test the layout. xD

The version of IE that I am using is the 8th, which is the latest version. That won’t be very helpful if I’d like to test the website layout in previous IE versions, which I expected to support less of my codes. First thing that came into my mind was the IE Tester, which I first learned about because of my schoolmate Alwyn Gan.

IE Tester is a free web browser that allows us to view web pages using the rendering and javascript engines of IE versions 5.5, 6, 7, and 8. We would be able to see how web pages look like in those versions of IE.

Thanks to IE Tester, I realized that my website layout’s transparent PNG’s were not actually transparent in IE 6! Phew. IE 6 does not support transparent PNG images. I found a workaround for that though.

If you’d like to test the website you’re coding in different versions of IE, then you might want to download the browser.

Happy coding!~ :D

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This entry was posted on Saturday, October 31st, 2009 at 4:39 am and is filed under Web Development. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “IE Tester – see how your web pages look in different versions of IE (Windows Internet Explorer)”

  1. Fix PNG images with transparency in older Windows Internet Explorer versions « Catzie.net Blog says:
    November 16, 2009 at 11:06 am

    [...] Most of us are probably using the newer versions of Internet Explorer. I suggest that you download and use the IE Tester. It’s a web browser that lets you see how web pages render in different versions if IE [...]

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