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Posted by: pandy Oct 27 2010, 08:39 PM

Anyone heard of this thing? Tried it?
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=8e6ac106-525d-45d0-84db-dccff3fae677&displaylang=en

Supposedly it lets you see your page in IE6, 7 and 8 side by side. I hesitate to install it without knowing what it really is. It requires 1.5 GB diskspace (for what?) and having IE8 installed isn't mentioned in the requirements.

Posted by: Christian J Oct 28 2010, 10:49 AM

"...shows your web pages rendered in Internet Explorer 6 and either Internet Explorer 7 or Internet Explorer 8, depending on which version you have installed on your machine."

Seems you can't have both IE7 and 8?

Posted by: pandy Oct 28 2010, 12:00 PM

See? I knew I wouldn't have to read all that myself if I posted it here. Still wonder why it needs 1.5 GB diskspace though.

I read about it on a list and those who had tried it were positive.

Posted by: stjepan Oct 30 2010, 04:56 PM

I used this for some tim http://browsershots.org/ and was quite satisfied.

Then I read what people on this forum have to say and now I don't need any compatibility checker

P.S. It's Microsoft's application, so 1.5GB is not that much

Posted by: pandy Oct 30 2010, 06:47 PM

I loved browserpool, but it's gone. To be honest I'm getting tired of this all. I'll be using an Etch A Sketch from now on.

Then try to fathom how large it would be had it been Adobe...

Posted by: Christian J Oct 30 2010, 06:48 PM

Why don't you use IETester?

Posted by: pandy Nov 2 2010, 10:49 PM

But that's just a way to run the standalones, isn't it? I got the impression this thing offered more, but it probably doesn't then.