I was – again – in a quest to find a good version of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 for MS Windows Vista. Don’t know how, but I found in a brazilian blog a really nice solution: IETester, from the DebugBar team. It provides us IE5.5, IE6, IE7 and IE8b1 and the already installed IE version. It means, If you have IE8b2 installed on your Windows PC, you can have all the IEs for testing your web project on! And this is one really cool feature of IETester: We don’t need keep restarting the browser to switch the IE version. We just need to open a new tab, selecting the version we want. Nice, uh? We just have some little issues about the application:
- The content disappear when we resize the application window
- The Previous/Next buttons are not working properly
- Focus is not working properly
- Java applets are not working
- Flash is not working on IE6 instance.
But I think that if we need IETester to run JavaScript/CSS/Images test, we don’t need to worry about these ‘problems’. It’s a great tool! I highly recommend it for anyone who need to test web projects on various IE versions. And the DebugBar team also offers some really awesome tools for debugging in IE (JS console, DOM inspector, etc). Check it out!
