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    1. [FreeHelp] IE Browsr Testing - a slick, smart solution
    2. Barry Carlson
    3. 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

    12/08/2010 11:31:49