Yeah, but it fails on pages using SSI. -R. On 2010-12-08 00:31, Barry Carlson wrote: > Those who prefer to use non MSIE browsers will find that testing your > webpage designs in Internet Explorer version from IE8 back to and including > IE5.5 can be a laborious process if you need to use cross-browser websites > such us http://browsershots.org. Downloadable packages such as IETester and > Multi-IE use a default IE engine and emulate other IE versions. Also, the > results when using IE Conditional Comments can be variable unless you make > modification to your Windows Registry. > > There is a smart, slick solution available using IE NetRenderer which uses a > dedicated virtual Windows environment for each Internet Explorer version. > IENetRender doesn't try to trick multiple IE versions to coexist, but uses > native IE instances to ensure optimal rendering, fidelity and repeatability. > Its core is a proprietary C# application used to control parallel rendering > and to generate the virtual screenshot images. > > The "slick" part is the speed, enter the url of the page you want to test, > select the browser for testing and within a couple of seconds you are > presented with the rendered page. As soon as Microsoft release the first IE9 > Beta version, it will also be supported. On top of that, there is some extra > inbuilt functionality available to Firefox users which allows them to select > their test requirements from a toolbar. > > The cost of this "slick solution" is, you guessed it, Free! So the place to > go to use it is:- > > http://ipinfo.info/netrenderer/index.php > > Barry > -- Regards, Rod Dav4is / P.O. Box 118 / Hyde Park, NY 12538 / USA Trustee and Webmaster Little Nine Partners Historical Society http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nylnphs/ Personal website: Genealogy, et Cetera: http://freepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dav4is/

On Friday, December 10, 2010 6:30 AM Rod Davis wrote:- > Yeah, but it fails on pages using SSI. -------------------------- Rod That's not the only thing it fails on. It claims to accept JavaScript, and if you check using <noscript> that would appear to be the case. Closer investigation finds that each virtual IE package uses the window.onload to trigger the "snapshot". I am having discussions(!) with a the outfit, but their teutonic attitude is that if you use JavaScript to modify a page, then you are not in the "Real" world. Barry