Multiple versions of IE in one Windows installation
Posted on November 09, 2003 @ 16:42 in Webdesign
Could it be? Could it really be that someone figured out how to run several different versions of Internet Explorer on one and the same Windows installation? It sure looks like it! Joe from Insert Title Web Design explains how he discovered this:
Now, also being the curious type, I wondered about this "IEXPLORE.EXE.Local".... so I deleted it. I now saw that this message about "Press Ok to load content" was gone when loading a flash movie and soon realized that this "IEXPLORE.EXE.local" file was the one thing that was allowing the browser to run separate from my default browser. Wow!
Indeed. Wow! (Via Markup & Style)
PS If you wonder why this is a big deal, consider the fact that different version of IE render websites differently, so when developing a website you really need to check it in those different versions in order to make sure it really works. Consider too the fact that by the tight integration of the browser into the operating system, Microsoft made it (appear) next to impossible to run those different versions on one and the same Windows installation, forcing webdesigners to either keep several machines running different IE versions around, or booting into different Windows installations on the same machine.
Update: I've tried it out and it works just fine with the caveats mentioned in an excellent thread on this over at Mezzoblue; links to prepackaged previous versions of IE over at Skyzyx (download and extract to new directory and off you go!); to top it off color coded IE icons.
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