Hoeist!? Blog of Colin Raaijmakers.

Hoeist!? Blog of Colin Raaijmakers.

Improved Productivity Through Internet Explorer 8 Developer Tools

Windows

Over the past year, I’ve written about different tools to help web developers become more productive when developing in Internet Explorer. These tools came from partners inside and outside Microsoft. One – the IE Developer Toolbar – came from the IE team in response to your requests for a free, lightweight tool to help debug your site in IE.

  • Integrated, Simple-to-use Developer Tools
  • A Visual Interface to the Platform
  • Fast Experimentation

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Tags: ie8, productivity, web, developer, development, tools

Published: Tuesday, April 28, 2009

IE8 Compatibility with X UA Compatible

Development

What does “getting ready for IE8” mean for web sites? IE8 displays content in IE8 Standards mode – its most standards-compliant layout mode – by default. In previous blog posts, we’ve discussed how this aligns with our commitment to Web standards interoperability. However, browsing with this default setting may cause content written for previous versions of IE to display differently than intended. This creates a “get ready” call to action for site owners to ensure their content will continue to display seamlessly in IE8.

In IE8 Beta 1, that option is the “IE=7” X-UA-Compatible tag, which instructs IE8 to display content in IE7 Standards mode. However, the scenario this doesn’t address is when IE=7 is applied as an HTTP header to a site that contains Quirks mode pages. The IE=7 HTTP header will force all pages – both Quirks and Standards – to display in IE7 Standards mode. Developers using this header while updating their sites would then have to add the “IE=5” tag to each page they want to keep in Quirks mode. This logic is fine for many websites. However, if a site has lots of Quirks mode pages, or for the case where pages with frames host a mix of Strict and Quirks mode content – as brought to light by IE8 Beta 1 user feedback – the compatibility opt-out adds a bit more work than we intended.

On a per-page basis, add a special HTML tag to each document, right after the tag:

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" />

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Tags: ie8, compatibility, meta, ie7

Published: Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Run IE 7 and IE 8 at the same time in Windows Vista

Development

We possibly have installed IE 7 or older version in our computer. With released of IE 8, we possibly wish tried this version but do not wish losing of IE 7. While most other browsers allow you o install and run multiple versions of their browsers simultaneously, Internet Explorer does not allow you to do so.

If you would like to continue to run your Internet Explorer 7 (IE 7) and at the same time install and try Internet Explorer 8 (IE 8), here is what you have to do.

Download the Internet Explorer Collection software. This will allow you to install and run multiple versions of Internet Explorer on your machine. During installation, you have to simply check the versions you’d like to install

Internet Explorer is a webbrowser based on the Trident render engine, which does not follow the W3C Web Standards. Internet Explorer Collection contains multiple standalone versions of IE, which can be used at the same time.

Internet Explorer Collection contains the following versions of IE:

Internet Explorer 1.0 (4.40.0.308)
Internet Explorer 1.5 (0.1.0.10)
Internet Explorer 2.01 (2.1.0.46)
Internet Explorer 3.0 (3.0.1152)
Internet Explorer 4.01 (4.72.3110.0)
Internet Explorer 5.01 (5.00.3314.2100)
Internet Explorer 5.5 (5.51.4807.2300)
Internet Explorer 6.0 (6.00.2800.1106)
Internet Explorer 7.0 (7.0.5730.13)
Internet Explorer 8.0 (8.0.6001.18241)
Download Internet Explorer Collection from this link :

http://finalbuilds.edskes.net/iecollection.htm

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Tags: internet, explorer, ie, ie6, ie7, ie8, multiple, vista

Published: Friday, April 03, 2009