Comments on: Standalone IE7 – The Fix

By: AlexW

AlexW — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 02:08:09 +0000

I just want to let you guys know that there is a launch script available for IE7 Beta 3. You can read more about it here

Haven’t had time to test it yet, but thanks Yousif. Beta 3 has been a problem till now.

By: Yousif

Yousif — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 21:42:38 +0000

I just want to let you guys know that there is a launch script available for IE7 Beta 3. You can read more about it here

By: subordination » Blog Archive » Microsoft Release IE 7 Beta 2

subordination » Blog Archive » Microsoft Release IE 7 Beta 2 — Thu, 25 May 2006 09:46:43 +0000

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By: squareman

squareman — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 17:08:06 +0000

Responding to my own post above… I think I found the “solution.” It appears that I always get the kernel32.dll error when I try to start up IE 5.5 on its own. If I have IE 6 running and then do IE 5.5, it seems to run fine. Even the conditional comments behave properly if I run regedit.exe to delete the version vector first. As long as I can consistently run IE 7, 6 and 5.5 (even if it means doing the aformentioned manual delete of the version vector), I’m relatively happy that I can now test (x)html/css in those browsers.

By: squareman

squareman — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 18:03:05 +0000

I’m getting consistent problems everytime I run 7b2 (even with the .bat script) where it breaks the 5.5 standalone. I’ll get my system running and playing nicely with the 5.01 and 5.5 standalones playing nice with version 6; but as soon as I run (and close) 7b2, I start getting kernel32 errors in IE 5.5 only. I can still run 5.01 standalone and IE6 just fine; but running 5.01 is less useful than being able to run 5.5.

Trying to get rid of the kernel32 error has been a bear and I’m not quite sure how to fix the 5.5 standalone. Any ideas?

By: AlexW

AlexW — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 00:23:26 +0000

IE6 has to run perfectly if I’m going to be testing my designs with any confidence.

I’ll try this new IE7 solution later.

I agree. At this stage, if IE has to be buggy, I’d prefer that it was IE7. I’ve tried Vivek’s VBScript version of this hack working and it seems to be an improvement on the batch file version.

The issues with the popup blocker and dropdowns are still a problem that doesn’t have a solution at this stage (to my knowledge).

By: TheBomb

TheBomb — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 17:51:01 +0000

As Busy did, I upgraded to IE7 and got a the evolt standalone version of IE6, but this caused IE6 to run buggy. It especially stopped some transparent PNG fixes working, which was enough for me to revert back to a normal instal of IE6.

IE6 has to run perfectly if I’m going to be testing my designs with any confidence.

I’ll try this new IE7 solution later.

Thanks.

By: busy

busy — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:05:44 +0000

I did the opposite, I upgraded to IE7 beta, and then got the IE6 standalone from http://browsers.evolt.org/?ie/32bit/standalone

The only drawback is conditional comments think you’re using ie7 even when you’re trying to use 6. Other hacks work fine though, and you can always just test for a stylesheet by hand. Still easier than anything else I’ve tried.

By: Andib » Blog Archive » IE7 Beta Standalone - The Fix

Andib » Blog Archive » IE7 Beta Standalone - The Fix — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 09:01:10 +0000

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By: Anonymously

Anonymously — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 06:13:54 +0000

If you don't want the console window you can try out the VBScript version of the hack.