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Jan
Learned and Web Discussion. |
Like many designers, I’ve grown to depend on the standalone Multiple IEs program to run both IE 6 and IE 7 without issue. Why is this necessary? Windows believes only one version of IE should be present, and uses registry trickery to make running side-by-side applications extra-difficult.
After migrating to the Mac, though, I ran into a problem: IE 6 began thinking it was IE 7. No, it didn’t render things like IE 7 did, and no, it didn’t have any of the same features, but it began calling IE 7’s conditional comments instead of its own. Frustrating.
Turns out the problem was something I messed up in the install process (no sure what), but there’s a simple registry fix here that set everything right for me.
Not sure if your running virtual windows or dual booting, but Microsoft has released a Virtual PC image of IE 6 for testing on the IE Blog.
If your running Windows in a virtual machine not sure what kind of performance a virtual machine inside a virtual machine gets you, but you may want to take a look at this way of doing things as well.
That is of course if you listen to what Microsoft tells you
I think loading a VM inside a VM might cause a rift that sends my computer rocketing through time itself. In which case it could go back and smack the developers of IE6 for me.