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IE Tester for your Websites

12 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/ie-tester-for-your-websites.89297/

iMav
iMav Original post #1
May 31, 2008 at 6:35 PM
IE 8 beta 2 is around the corner & to help web developers this tool has surfaced on the internet.
IETester is a free WebBrowser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8 beta 1, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process.
Download IETester v0.2.2 (23.8MB)

IETester Home Page

Also if you guys want your websites to be rendered as IE 7 on IE 8 then, you will need to add:

Code:
X-UA-Compatible: IE=EmulateIE7
More info on the above can be found here.
Gigacore
May 31, 2008 at 10:26 PM
Was searching for something like this.. Will sure help me ;)

Thanks :)
ravi_9793
May 31, 2008 at 10:54 PM
Thanks for sharing. really helpful :)
victor_rambo
May 31, 2008 at 11:31 PM
Seems like a very useful tool. Will will download it. Thank you.
iMav
iMav #5
Jun 1, 2008 at 12:34 AM
You're welcome guys :p
anandk
anandk #6
Jun 1, 2008 at 12:43 AM
Looks good, thanx.
victor_rambo
Jun 1, 2008 at 3:25 AM
Update:

It works fine now. Not sure what was wrong or what was fixed. Looks like it needs a PC restart to run.

Edit: My previous statement(quoted below) is outdated.
Downloaded, installed but the program did not run. Keeps on saying "IEtester.exe has encountered an problem and needs to close." Not sure if the problem is with my PC or the software.
Anywayz, you can still do most of what it does by installing a FF addon called IE netrenderer
victor_rambo
Jun 2, 2008 at 4:59 PM
Well, just tried to run it today again and it works. Not sure what was wrong and what was fixed(if any). But looks like a PC restart is required to run it. I don't think the Author mentioned that. Anywayz, will email him about this issue!

Edit: still the software does not run smoothly, it does crash sometimes.
coolpcguy
Jun 2, 2008 at 5:26 PM
you guys don't use browser shots ?
*browsershots.org/
victor_rambo
Jun 2, 2008 at 5:32 PM
^browser shots does not help much if you are on localhost and using .htaccess protection. You can use C name if you are using localhost without htacess protection!
coolpcguy
coolpcguy #11
Jun 2, 2008 at 5:38 PM
^ Ah, Ok.
T
The Conqueror #12
Jun 4, 2008 at 10:46 AM
Thanks a lot...