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Jan 19, 2001, 14:57 #1
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Im trying to download older versions of IE for PC for beta testing.
I couldn't find any on the MS site....
Any Help?
Thanks
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Jan 19, 2001, 15:45 #2
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Follow this link - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.asp?
They have a drop-down box with numerous downloads. They have IE 3 and up listed.
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Jan 19, 2001, 18:54 #3
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Jan 19, 2001, 19:05 #4
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Originally posted by Nicky
I don't think that you can have multiple versions of Internet Explorer on the same hard drive!
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Jan 19, 2001, 22:43 #5
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Originally posted by Nicky
I don't think that you can have multiple versions of Internet Explorer on the same hard drive!
I haven't tested IE3 and IE5 yet
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Jan 20, 2001, 06:26 #6
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To be honest, I recommend making sure your site works in IE 5+, Netscape 4.5+, and Opera 5+. It's not worth the risk and hassle of getting an older browser.
I have
Netscape 2
Netscape 3
Netscape 4.7
Netscape 6
Opera
IE 5.5
Amaya
SImply Web 2000
pwWebspeak
And of course all my kind friends and meembers of Sitepoint who will test sites on their machines if asked nicely enough!
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Jan 20, 2001, 20:13 #7
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Nicky, I try to make sure my site is accessible to the majority of my visitors, which doesn't consist of Netscape 2.0, for example. And when I'm on a slow dial-up connection, it's just not worth downloading browsers like Netscape 2.0.
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Jan 20, 2001, 20:40 #8
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I agree with Marc. However, it's always an idea to analyse your logs to see who's surfing with what. If you're still getting a bunch of users with Netscape 2 or 3 by all means code for them as well. Otherwise if you don't have any of those users (and some of my company's sites are getting to that stage now) you could probably get away with less backwards-compatibility on your site.
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Jan 21, 2001, 11:39 #9
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Try Browserola http://www.codo.com/browserola/ ... I came across the "multiple IE in same machine problem" last year and was pointed to this utility.
Althouhg it is no longer "sold" I don't believe that the "evaluation version" ever expires.
It allows you to simulate browsing an html ( not a dinamically generated page) with IE1.0-4.0 and with Netscape 1.0 - 4.0.
Better than nothing and definitely better than downloading all of the different flavors of Netscape. At least IE won't choke on itself by having multiple versions of it.
PS. I was able to successfully run multiple versions of IE prior to this by partitioning the drive but I got tired of FDISK
Good LUCK
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Jan 21, 2001, 14:07 #10
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Jan 21, 2001, 14:23 #11
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Interesting Nicky,
Never had a single crash of Browserola. Software conflict perhaps?
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