IETester makes us happy
written by Daniel Angel
⇒03 Jul 2009
So, ever since IE8 was released, we’d been delaying installing and testing on it, because, you know, we’re Mac people here at the office and I’m more of a GNU/Linux person myself, so as you might expect, Microso*t does not have too many fans here. But, you know, we have to support it as it is still dominant and it will keep making us miserable for a while.
I was fairly certain most of our stuff would be OK on with IE8: I’ve been fairly careful about my conditional comments and the php get_browser() tag, making sure that all hacks were taken only by versions 7 and earlier, and since IE8 allegedly passed the Acid2 test, well, in theory everything was supposed to work.
This week we could not delay installing it and testing any more. One of our clients sent us a minor bug and we needed to fix it. So I started googling for a way to keep not two but three versions of IE on the same machine and found a wonderful little program called IETester on Lifehacker. What it does is it basically packages several versions of IE (5.5*, 6, 7 and 8) into one convenient little frame. No researching, no hacks, no browsershots, no cookie problems. Damn awsome!
It’s made our lives so much easier … even to the point where I actually look forward to testing stuff on IE! If you’ve ever had pains getting multiple versions of your favorite browser to work on the same machine, you should definitely check it out. Right now it’s windoze only and still a little bit quirky, but I guarantee it’ll make supporting IE just a little bit easier.