I recently finished a very cool website (http://www.ldrivers.ie) from an Irish Customer which had a large issue on Cross-browser compatibility. From design phase to programming phase of the website I only used Mozilla Firefox Browser. After the project is done, I uploaded it to a temporary sub-domain in the customers website and the minute he saw the website, he emailed me and told me it was a mess. I tried checking the site using my current version of Internet Explorer which is IE8 and everything was fine. I did not understood why until I discovered he was using IE7 or Internet Explorer 7. I tried researching about IE7 issues and I found out that it was a mess. Please check Internet Explorer 7 in Wikipedia. You’ll discover that it has security issues and is only a little advance compared to IE6.
So since I don’t have IE7 and don’t want to downgrade my IE8 (which I’m not using for so many times), I research and found this very neat tool. It is a free software which can be downloaded over the internet and a lot of web designers have been using it already. There are minor bugs with the program especially the handling of scripts but is very useful when checking the different output of a website in different Internet Explorer versions such as IE 5.5, IE 6, IE 7, and IE 8. The UI or User Interface is just like the design of Microsoft Office 2007.
Screenshot of IE Tester Software
Enjoy using this neat tool and don’t forget to comment here if you’re satisfied using the tool and have solved your IE problems.
Tags: cross-browser compatibility, download, free installer, ie tester, internet explorer
