Multiple Versions of Internet Explorer
Ethan Marcotte (aka Sidesh0w) has posted a link to a tutorial on how to run Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5, and 6.0 under Windows XP! I’ve tried it, and it works!
To save some people the hassle, I’ve gone ahead and zipped each stand-alone installation and made them available for download. I’ve tested them on Windows 2000 and XP. You’d just need to upgrade your Windows 2000 installation with Internet Explorer 6.0, then download and unzip these files wherever you want (I put them in my Internet Explorer folder, myself).
Update — Just so that everyone is aware, the official version number of Internet Explorer 4.01 is v4.01. The internal version number for Internet Explorer 4.01 is v4.72. Why? I’m not sure, but this is the case. Some websites are reporting that you can download IE 4.72, when they really mean IE 4.01. Blame Microsoft for the confusion.
Update: Dec 3, 2003 — Just wanted to say hello to everyone visiting from the Web Standards Project and WebMonkey.
Update: Feb 16, 2006 — Looking for IE7 info? Find it here: Internet Explorer 7.0 Beta 2 Standalone is available
Update: Jan 1, 2008 — A company called Tredosoft has put together an installer that comes with fixes for things like cookies and conditional comments. Check it out!
Comment by Mike 6 Nov 2003 at 2:14 pm
Ha! Saw a post a while back on WebmatserWorld about this dated Oct 8, 2003 by ‘jobarr’, but paid no attention… Hmm… http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum21/6339.htm. Wonder if that’s Joe Maddalone?
Anyway, thanks for the zips!
Comment by Josh S 6 Nov 2003 at 7:26 pm
Thanks, it was just what I needed to look at my site in those older browsers!
Comment by Mikey C 6 Nov 2003 at 7:54 pm
Great Job! It’s funny that IE5 does a better job of displaying my site than IE5.5. I wish you lots of luck with IE4… any way you can port IE5/Mac to Windows next? 
Comment by Wayne Burkett 6 Nov 2003 at 8:55 pm
Thanks for taking the time to make this work in ME. Great work.
Comment by Brad Wilson, The .NET Guy 6 Nov 2003 at 9:25 pm
I can verify that it does work on Windows Server 2003. The About box is not quite right… it shows the v6 version number, even though the About box is clearly the 5.x about box. I tested version strings, and that shows the right version to remote sites. And I could see known 5.x rendering issues when using the 5.x browsers. I wish there was a way to title them appropriately, but the fact that it works is beyond cool enough. 
Comment by Ryan Parman 6 Nov 2003 at 10:18 pm
To everyone, you’re welcome. I’ve been looking for something like this for quite a long time too, and I’m happy to be able to share it with you all. Thanks to Joe for figuring it all out.
Mikey C, yeah, I wish I could port IE5/Mac. That way we could all ditch IE/Win!
Brad, thanks for verifying that Server 2003. I thought it’d be the same as XP, but I wasn’t sure…
Comment by Scott Johnson 6 Nov 2003 at 11:17 pm
The impossible has just been made possible! Thanks for putting it all in a couple of convenient zip files. This will be incredibly useful.
Comment by Bob 7 Nov 2003 at 1:22 am
Just tested it on a XP system and it works, although the system crashes when I go to the favorites menu. Beside that, I have a Dutch IE6 so the 5.01 en 5.5 version are also shown in Dutch…
On my Windows 2000 (SP4, English) system it doesn’t work! When I startup the 5.01 of 5.5 version the normal browser (IE6) just starts up… (looked at startup and http://www.cyscape.com/showbrow.asp)
Comment by jim 7 Nov 2003 at 2:22 am
excellent work, M$ is either gonna sue his ass or offer him a job…
…good look either way
Comment by Duncan Smart 7 Nov 2003 at 3:55 am
Interesting – on further research this isn’t just an IE-specific thing:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dllproc/base/dynamic_link_library_redirection.asp
Running SysInternals’ FileMon you can also see the app looking (well, LoadLibrary) for the files in a directory called “\iexplore.exe.local” too.
Comment by Tibor 7 Nov 2003 at 4:27 am
If it can be used in WINE… It would be a great present to all *nix web developers…
Comment by manuel razzari 7 Nov 2003 at 7:05 am
hello again Ryan, i’ve put a mirror of your files with info in spanish at: http://www.convistaalmar.com.ar/pub/ie-5.0-5.5-6.0/
Comment by Andrew 7 Nov 2003 at 7:06 am
well I don’t know… I am having lots of problems that I think are related to this modified version… I get ‘library not registered’ whenever mousing-over different javascript or CSS-based code that work fine in IE 6 / Mozilla / Opera (drop-down / pop-up menu’s and IE JS image fade functions). I also have the guarantee from the creator of the drop-down (pop-up) menu’s that IE 5.5 integration should be fine. When I see this error regarding the ‘library’, it’s not one I’ve seen before, and think it’s because there is a DLL file or component missing. Comments? Good for seeing if the page’s layout is holding together, but other than that, until I’ve had confirmation, I’m not going to use it and cause myself excess trouble. Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate all efforts on this project.
Comment by Ryan Parman 7 Nov 2003 at 7:16 am
Manuel, thanks for the mirrors! I’m losing more and more bandwidth as we speak! I’ve linked to your files as mirrors. We should be getting 1 or 2 more mirrors sometime today.
Andrew, obviously, this is not flawless. All 70-80+ MB of files for Internet Explorer do *something*. This isn’t meant to be an utterly flawless piece of work, but it does cover *most* of the bases.
As Joe posts more files on his tutorial, I’ll bundle those files with these Zips. It’s still better than nothing.
Comment by Darrel 7 Nov 2003 at 7:28 am
Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou
thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou
thankyouthankyouthankyou!
Comment by Patrick Schriner 7 Nov 2003 at 7:36 am
Does anyone have an old IE6 Beta Version?
A month ago I wanted to take a second look at “Smart Tags”, but I couldn´t find them anywhere on the web. Google wasn´t much help.
Or does anyone have the “complete” “Smart Tags for the Everyday Web” package, the one on MS site is now stripped down 
??
Comment by Brian P 7 Nov 2003 at 8:33 am
Patrick two IE 6 beta builds can be found at http://browsers.evolt.org/
More specifically : http://browsers.evolt.org/?ie/32bit/6.0
The first beta build only has one download so who knows if it’s 9x based or NT based.
But the second later beta has 2 dowloads labeled w2k and wme.
Comment by sam 7 Nov 2003 at 8:39 am
having no luck with the zip versions for win98. the exe’s just seem to load the currently installed ie6 version. unzipped them both to a new folder on my system, tested user agent against browserhawk.com and tried some css but everything is just ie6 still for both the 5.5 and 5.01 exe’s. for example if i run the 5.01 exe, and then click a shortcut for an html file, it will not open in a new window but just load in the window open for 5.01. so clearly for some reason the 5.01exe/5.5exe are just loading ie6 still….
had avant installed (for convenience) so took that off, reinstalled ie6sp1, and still no difference. trawled the registry for any pointers, but after 4 hrs frustration not sure what else i can try! anyone tried the win98 versions, or any advice for this PLEASE PLEASE!! feel i am missing out on something monumental here….
Comment by radu 7 Nov 2003 at 9:27 am
one more mirror:
http://miluc.de/msie/
from now on, i don’t have to annoy my friends anymore with my thousand screenshots requests…
danke!
Comment by Peter Hawkes 7 Nov 2003 at 9:37 am
Thanks very much, I really appreciate your work and sharing this.
I have Windows XP and all seems to work perfectly. IE5.5. shows as IE6 in the ‘About’ but when printing both IE5 and IE5.5 show correctly.
I am sure if you set up a PayPal account people will donate towards some bandwidth, I am sure we can all afford $10 or something to say thank you.
Pete Hawkes
Comment by Jemal 7 Nov 2003 at 10:04 am
And now I can finally see how utterly broken my sites are… Sigh. Thanks!
Comment by Anonymous 7 Nov 2003 at 11:15 am
Favorites bar works on both versions while the Favorites menu does not.
Comment by Andreas 7 Nov 2003 at 11:54 am
Well, I can only add another big “thank you”! Making it that easy is for us others gets you standing ovations from me!
Andreas
Comment by RIchard 7 Nov 2003 at 11:58 am
The 5.01 version shows up OK on Tanteks bandpass filter test but not the 5.5 version.
http://www.tantek.com/CSS/Examples/ie50winbandpass.html
http://www.tantek.com/CSS/Examples/ie55winbandpass.html
Huh ??
Comment by Peter Hawkes 7 Nov 2003 at 12:08 pm
Richard
I tested the IE5.5 with the Javascript object window.createPopup which was only introduced in IE5.5+ and it works where as the IE5.01 doesn’t have window.createPopup. Therefore IE5.5 definately is IE5.5.
Pete
Comment by Nathan Wright 7 Nov 2003 at 1:57 pm
I agree with Peter, you definitely need a PayPal account. Of course, we couldn’t actually pay you to distribute free M$ software, that would be wrong. I was thinking that I owe you $10 for being such a swell guy …
Comment by Big John 7 Nov 2003 at 2:35 pm
Oooh, those rotten so-and-so’s! Either M$ was deliberately
withholding this from us (getting many jollies, no doubt),
or they are a gaggle of hopeless nincompoops! I subscribe
to the latter view. However the former is quite persuasive too…
As for my new IE suite, well, it seems a little unreal. This
happened too fast, and I’m still kinda groggy. Still, I feel
a world class “Woohoo” coming on soon. Thanks guy! 
Comment by Rich 7 Nov 2003 at 3:54 pm
I’ve been wresteling with this multiple browser problem for some time now. Thanks so much for putting this together.
Rich
Comment by Bill Mason 7 Nov 2003 at 8:04 pm
I installed IE4 using the tutorial’s instructions. Yes, the address bar doesn’t work but if you use File -> Open you can navigate anywhere! So I’ve added IE4 to my machine (WinXP), and a 16-bit IE3 just to go full circle.
If you still need mirrors, write me privately. I’ll be glad to host them (and add IE 3 and 4 if people want) until my bandwidth is drained. Right now I don’t get much traffic so I can spare some.
Comment by Brendan McGuigan 7 Nov 2003 at 11:40 pm
Absolutely incredible. I just want to toss my undying gratitude on the heap with all of the others. And while I appreciate all this wonderful work just being placed in the open for us all, I sincerely don’t think anyone would object if you put up some way for those dying to give you more concrete thanks to do so. If not PayPal, a link to an Amazon Wishlist would be nice. It’s not being a wh0re if people are begging you to let them give you things… or maybe… I’m caught in a bad wordchoice.
Be that as it may, I believe I’ll just fall back on Darrel’s eloquently put post: thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou!
Comment by English 8 Nov 2003 at 12:25 am
You’re a star. Thanks for your welcome contribution to the community.
Comment by -lc- 8 Nov 2003 at 12:39 am
By the way, credit where credit is due, this technique is described over a month ago in great detail (though not in english here)
http://www.misuzilla.org/docs/ie-SxS
Comment by W3C Compliant 8 Nov 2003 at 4:31 am
Quite impressive…
http://members.lycos.co.uk/hfrcats/Browsers.png
(the address bar disappeared… this is weird, but who cares ?…)
Comment by manuel razzari 8 Nov 2003 at 7:51 am
Wow LC. The page says “Created: 03-Dec-2002 18:31:00 Last-Modified: 15-Oct-2003 19:03:09″.
So indeed this confirms (once again) there’s a larger web-dev scene that’s not happening in english, and where those people don’t even care if you (the english speaking) don’t get it, or (as in here) take a month to get it.
And they don’t care because the opposite is usually true: a book’s translation takes a full year to be published (if it gets translated at all). Tech articles on the web get translated by geeks who can read english and like the subject they’re translating. But, mostly, language is an accesibility barrier for those who can’t read english.
I mean. We know culture has been, for thousands of years, a barrier for people to communicate. But, as CodeBitch said a while ago, “it’s the World wide web”. And perhaps there’s a “workaround” for the which doesn’t involve the whole world speaking english as primary language.
(sorry for the ‘off topic’, Ryan
Comment by Saoirse81 8 Nov 2003 at 9:31 am
Thank you for the zips. I have a question though, being a non-expert-type geek, if I am running windows 95 with IE5.5 (also Firebird and Opera), if I install the IE 5 download, will it mess up my 5.5. If my 5.5 gets messed up, my ISP won’t work as it is msn. Please let me know. Also, if I re-install the 5.5 download over my existing 5.5, would it possibly help it to not crash so much by repairing any damaged files? Please excuse my ignorance, but I will read and respond to all answers. Thanks.
saoirse81@msn.com
Comment by Blair Millen 8 Nov 2003 at 10:11 am
Cheers! A great job in providing the downloads, thank you.
Comment by Larry Israel 8 Nov 2003 at 10:43 am
This is indeed wonderful news. Some people are asking why Microsoft didn’t tell web developers or anyone else about this. A few years ago, there was a little disagreement over an anti-trust matter that needed to be settled in court. Microsoft claimed IE was an integral part of the operating system and furthermore, it was impossible for them to seperate IE from the OS as a stand-alone application. At the time, most observers thought that claim was false, and it is further disproved by the existence of the solution posted here. Seems to me, this is the reason MS didn’t tell anyone about it.
Comment by Pete Hawkes 8 Nov 2003 at 11:53 am
I now have IE4. Seems to work fine, tests prove it is IE4. Files are:
DISPEX.DLL
IEXPLORE.exe.local
INETCPL
JSCRIPT.DLL
MSHTML.DLL
SHDOCVW.DLL
URLMON.DLL
My own webspace doesn’t allow much bandwidth so maybe some else might put it up. I can upload files if someone wants them, email me info@petehawkes.co.uk
Comment by Steve 9 Nov 2003 at 10:58 am
A totally awesome post, thank you for the time in making these available – a great service for designers.
Comment by James Edmunds 9 Nov 2003 at 12:31 pm
I’ve installed the zipped 5.5 files on Windows XP, in a sub-directory called IE55SP2_NT under my Inernet Explorer folder under Program Files. I’m starting it by clicking on the IEXPLORE.EXE icon in the IE55SP2_NT folder. The program starts, but won’t make a connection, I only get the Microsoft DNS error page. Am I being bone-headed and missing some simple step (wouldnt be the first time!)??? And do add a PayPal button or something for everybody to send you ten bucks!
Comment by Ryan Parman 9 Nov 2003 at 3:36 pm
James, they should just run right out of the box (or Zip, I should say). If you’re getting a DNS error, the first thing I would do is make sure I was connected to the internet… which is pretty basic, but sometimes it’s just something simple that you miss.
Comment by James Edmunds 9 Nov 2003 at 9:09 pm
Thanks, Paul, for the comment, because it is possible to miss something that simple. In this case, though, I’m connected and the 6.0 IE that I normally use is working as normal, browsing sites, etc., as is my Mozilla.
I actually have two machines both running XP so tomorrow morning I’ll try it on the other box and see if it works… could be something peculiar to the machine I first tried it on, at least that will give me a basis for elimination.
Thanks again,
James
Comment by Charlie Petitt 9 Nov 2003 at 9:44 pm
Thank you for providing the developer community with valuable tools for testing websites. I had seen my site in IE 5.5 before and assumed it would be OK on IE 5.01. Boy, was I wrong! After downloading and installing the zip files for both browsers last night (I’m on Windows 98 Second Edition), I tested my site on each of them. This led to several hours spent troubleshooting scripts and style sheets, as well as a minor edit of every page source on the primary domain (274 pages in Windows WordPad), but it’s now fixed and works better than ever. Thanks again!
Comment by Peter Hickman 10 Nov 2003 at 2:06 am
Regarding IE 4.01SP1
“I got a little greedy, and tried it with Internet Explorer 4.01 SP1. I got the browser to open to my default page, but it wouldn?t understand it when I?d type in a new website in the address bar. With a bit more digging, I?ll (hopefully) be able to run IE4 as well.”
It works from the File->Open… for some reason, a minor inconvenience.
Great work
Comment by manuel razzari 10 Nov 2003 at 5:17 am
Hey Ryan IE3 posted here:
http://www.nachtarchiv.de/Webdesign.html?reportage=25
(site in german but files are for IE in englisH)
i’ve just mirrored it on my site
BTW, I’m using his version of IE4, on W2K, and the address bar works just fine…
Comment by Greg Wolkins 10 Nov 2003 at 5:22 am
Great job! I’ve been looking for something like this for years. I hope MS doesn’t send any nasty letters your way. On the contrary, they should have implemented this years ago. And it’s so “open source” of you to share with us all!
Comment by manuel razzari 10 Nov 2003 at 6:17 am
Ryan, you may replace your IE4 with nachtarchiv.de’s.
Yours was actually 4.72 and not 4.01 (right click on IEXPLORE.exe, Properties, Version). But nachtarchiv’s got the Address bar right so we should keep that one.
There are two versions of IE 4.72, one for NT and other for 98. The one for 98 doesn’t get an address bar, so File>Open has to be used here.
IE3 is the same zip for both NT and 98 and works just fine. Even _looks_ like IE3, which is quite useful here!
Comment by Chris Hester 10 Nov 2003 at 6:23 am
Magnifico!
I just noticed all versions (from IE5 upwards) share the same temporary files folder. So if you’ve already been to a site in IE6, IE5 will load it quickly.
Like many people I’m finding my site is not the same in these earlier versions, so they are an invaluable testing tool. Thank you so much!
Comment by James Edmunds 10 Nov 2003 at 7:19 am
I just tried the 5.5 on the second of my two Windows XP machines and it works like a charm. The fact that it didn’t work on the first no doubt has to do with some arcane mis-shapen setting within my network configuration on that box, wherein who know what devilish mysteries lie.
This is a truly valuable service, and my deep thanks.
Comment by Ryan Parman 10 Nov 2003 at 8:57 am
Manuel, IE 4.01 actually has a version number of 4.72. I don’t know why MS did that, but I noticed that a long time ago.
Comment by Martin Snizek 10 Nov 2003 at 12:37 pm
Hi, I downloaded the packages for Windows 98 and unzipped them into two folders. When I launch the file “iexplore.exe”, the programme uses the IE6 rendering engine (I used many CSS examples to discover that). But the interface looks like from IE 5.x (even the error with Favorities is presented) and it returns an appropriate HTTP-header (tested using “navigator.useragent”).
I use IE 6 and Czech version of Windows 98, earlier I used Avant Browser (but it is already uninstalled).
Did someone of you have a similar problem? Do you have any idea how to solve it? I wolud be glad for any idea…
Comment by Ryan Parman 10 Nov 2003 at 12:47 pm
I’ve been noticing people having a hard time with these browsers on non USA English systems. Although that may or may not be very important in this case, you might want to try locating a localized version of IE for all non-EN-US systems…
Comment by Philipp 10 Nov 2003 at 5:17 pm
Having the same problem like others with Win ME (German) always loading IE 6, I wonder if it is possible to ’shrink’ an IE 6 to work on a ME/98 systems with 5.5 installed (‘native’ IE version of these systems).
As the two version I downloaded above work fine maybe this is the way to handle it.
Comment by John Magnus 10 Nov 2003 at 6:01 pm
Fantastic! It’s excellent what you (and others) have managed to figure out with this IE situation! Very nice to be able to preivew sites on the different versions… Now why doesn’t MS help out and publish/let us know how to perfect this solution… Thanks!
Comment by Alex 10 Nov 2003 at 10:37 pm
We are not worthy!!! We are not worthy!!!
Thanks. I can final take a sledgehammer to that tempermental Win95 box with the dodgy network card . HuRRAHH!!!
Comment by TiGR 11 Nov 2003 at 6:26 am
This all is pretty great, but I’ve not downloaded files yet, coz I use russian browser version.
I’ve tried to create my own installation of IE5.0 following instructions from the tutorial. And it doesn’t work. At all. when I start iexplore.exe it doesn’t even show up a window. As FileMon and RegMon show, it checks History and Temporary Internet files and then shuts. Why? [btw, among others, on start it checks attributes for the file... iexplore.exe.local!!!]
I’m on Win98SE with IE 5.5 installed on it. Do I have to upgrade to IE 6 to make this work?
Comment by Jeremy 11 Nov 2003 at 7:16 am
How does having all these previous browsers affect security? Are they the final, fully patched versions of each? Do they present any security holes?
Comment by Ryan Parman 11 Nov 2003 at 8:19 am
Jeremy, I’m not entirely sure of the security of these browsers to be honest. They’re intended to be used for testing your pages, not surfing the entire internet with. With that said, these are the latest updates of these browsers (5.01 and 5.5), being Service Pack 2.
I received files for IE 4.01 and 3.0 from another reader, and after scanning them for viruses and testing them on my Windows XP Pro system, they seemed to work just fine. I’m not entirely sure what release of each browser these are, but none of these are being maintained anyways. I’d say that they’re about as secure as all Microsoft software (read: be careful).
TiGR, yes. You should upgrade to IE6, then use these for testing. IE6 is a better IE-browser to have on your system anyways. It supports more CSS and W3C DOM than earlier versions (although it’s still in last place compared to other modern browsers like Mozilla, Firebird, and Opera 7).
John, I don’t think that this is in MS’s best interests. Remember that the whole integration issue was the singular defense in the recent anti-trust case against the Department of Justice. Now we all know that is was BS, and they should have split MS into 2 or 3 smaller companies. Maybe then, MS would bother to update IE to properly support web standards instead of sitting on their butts doing nothing…
Comment by Jaime 11 Nov 2003 at 8:32 am
Hello
Help, On NT I can be making something bad? When I prove 5,5 versions 5,5 and sp2 and the tested in http://www.insert-title.com/browser.asp Always indicates MSIE to me 6,0 But when starting the Navigator leaves when banner of the 5.5.
I have a great variety of installed Navigators and in each one I have different problems, for that reason i want to use this solution to be safe of which test
Thank
Comment by Rory 11 Nov 2003 at 11:07 am
Thanks for this packaged solution!
Has anybody run into issues with using IE’s conditional comments with these installs? I put together a quick test page using conditional comments and always get the expected IE 6 response, rather than my test message for IE 5.01 and IE 5.5. And, when building my site I used a conditional comment to load an IE 5 css page, which works fine on machines I have seen using only IE 5.5, but when viewing with either of these installs (IE5.01 and 5.5 for win98) it is back to broken. When I take a look at my temp files only the truely compliant CSS file is loading, not the file adjusted for IE 5’s shortcomings.
Any ideas? It would seem that the conditional comments look the same place the About IE screen does? Just ran into this issue a short time ago, so I’m off to do a little more testing.
Comment by Bill Mason 11 Nov 2003 at 12:14 pm
Conditional comments will not work. The information to decide what version of the browser this is to test against the condition comes from the registry, which will always report IE6 since that’s the “installed” version.
Comment by jon isbell 11 Nov 2003 at 2:04 pm
anyone think of using babel fish?
http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr?tt=url&lp=ja_en&url=http://www.misuzilla.org/docs/ie-SxS
Comment by jon isbell 11 Nov 2003 at 2:08 pm
ok for some reason that url doesn’t work but if you do it directly from the babelfish site it does.
http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/
translate jap to eng
http://www.misuzilla.org/docs/ie-SxS
Comment by Joel Goldstick 11 Nov 2003 at 3:59 pm
I get a 404 for ie4 (11/11/2003 7pm et)
Comment by dan 12 Nov 2003 at 7:52 am
Thanks, this is great!
Just thought I’d share and if anyone knows why great!
I have 2 machines, one with XP and one with ME.
IE 5.01 and IE 5.5 work fine on XP but no go for millenium, they are just IE6.
Thanks again, this saves me a lot of travel time
Comment by markku 12 Nov 2003 at 10:24 am
Ryan, nice job on making IE 3 and 4 work! Now we get to test across a wider range of IE browsers. Thanks!
Comment by Appreciative Webmaster 12 Nov 2003 at 4:09 pm
I don’t even want to think of all the time that’s been wasted over the years, setting up test environments. This is all it took? No wonder they’re being sued from all angles…
This will be a great help- Thank You!
Comment by pietro 12 Nov 2003 at 5:34 pm
Three words (and a couple more blue icons on my Win ME desktop):
Dream — Come — True !!!
Thank you, this is really really useful.
Keep up the good work
Comment by Ryan Parman 12 Nov 2003 at 7:34 pm
Matthew, how funny. I just came across your website a day or two ago. Somebody at Waferbaby ( http://www.waferbaby.com ) made the comment that your website ( http://www.differentsky.com/ ) looked a lot like Waferbaby 2. It looks like it’s changed a smidge since then, but it’s looking good.
Besides, I borrowed a bit of the CSS for my left-hand menu from the design of Waferbaby 1, so I can’t blame anything. In the end, I rewrote it all on my own, but his CSS document was an excellent reference…
Comment by Richard 13 Nov 2003 at 12:20 am
The other wierd thing is that IE 4 version seem to import style sheets on http://www.wired.com and other sites where they should not be imported.
Comment by Frank 13 Nov 2003 at 1:08 am
Hello.
In Spanish Windows NT 4, with IE 5.5 or 5.5 sp2, does not work when I always prove in http://www.insert-title.com/browser.asp appears to me: MSIE 6.0
Ohps
Comment by Robert 13 Nov 2003 at 2:12 am
> The internal version number for Internet Explorer 4.01 is v4.72.
This was probably a dirty trick by MicroSlop since when 4.01 came out, the comparable Netscape release was 4.72 – so internally they may be saying ‘..we’ve implemented everthing in NS 4.72, maybe we should write our own code now…’
Comment by Rob 13 Nov 2003 at 6:46 am
I want to have your babies..
Thankyou very much for this.
Comment by John 13 Nov 2003 at 8:03 am
Awesome, know what to do with all these other systems.
Comment by waylan 13 Nov 2003 at 11:07 am
Just wanted to say thank you. I guess I did something right. My new css only site design works great in all browsers greater that 4.x and, of course, it looked as expected in ie3 (unstyled text only – looks pretty good seeing I planned for it and tested in lynx, etc.) But wow, does ie4.0 mess it up. Fortunely, the only major problem seems to be caused only by an absolutely positioned menu that is covering over block elements that are ignoring the display:inline style. With a slight change to the order of things in my html I hope to be able to either float or position relative. Not to worry, I’m not holding my breath on this one as it still won’t look quite right.
At least I know with relative ease what my viewers are seeing, so THANKS again.
If anyone is wondering. I’m running Win98SE and all seem to work as adversized. I’ll try my Win2k machine at home tomorrow.
Thankyouthankyouthankyou,
Waylan
Comment by Jean Claude Zerafa 13 Nov 2003 at 2:33 pm
ALAS!!! Gloria!!! Thanks VERY VERY MUCH!!
Comment by Gary Wyatt 14 Nov 2003 at 8:17 pm
Hi,
Just downloaded the 5.5 and 5.01 zips and unfortunately they both launch 6.0. I ‘ve gone to several websites to detect browsers and they still are being identified as 6.0. Is there a way to know for sure the version of the browser that is running? If 6.0 is being lauched when I try to launch 5.5 or 5.01, does anyone know what might be going on? I’m using XP Home…
Thnx..
GW
Comment by Ryan Parman 14 Nov 2003 at 8:22 pm
First of all, are you running a USA English copy of Windows XP? Second of all, are you running the copies of iexplore.exe from within the unzipped folders?
Generally, it seems that the only people who are having problems are ones who answered no to any of those questions.
Comment by Gary Wyatt 14 Nov 2003 at 9:07 pm
Yes, I am running an english version of XP and I am launching the iexplorer.exe’s from within the zipped folders. They definitely say 5.5 and 5.01 on the filesystem, but after they are launched I’m not so sure. I know several posts have mentioned that the about box may continue to say 6.0, but I’m skeptical since all of designs render the same on 5.01, 5.5, and 6.0 which is unusual considering the amount of CSS I have in them. Plus sites that detect browsers are stating that they are all 6.0. I was just wondering if there is way to know for sure, maybe a site out there that breaks under one, but not the others.
thanks…
GW
Comment by TiGR 18 Nov 2003 at 9:25 am
I’ve figured some things out:
First of all, there is no need to have IE6 installed. It will work anyway since this depends not on INSTALLED browser’s version, but rather on how the browser we’re running was built.
Next, I even doubt that you have to have any IE installed for this trick. I mean if you will remove IE (with IEradicator, for instance), it should still work.
The problems that I had were due not to the cyrillic or something else, but to broken installer I’ve been using.
And some thoughts on why all this works: This all is required because IE is being heavily used by entire windows system (well, by default). And if you develop Internet Explorer – you meet a dillemah: to be or not to be. How to test IE if all system depends on it and you may get all your system crashed?
The answer is simple: make IE work in “debug” or local mode. It also could be done with a command-line parameters. Had anyoune tried this?
All this was up there since very 3rd version.
Comment by Raphael 20 Nov 2003 at 4:25 am
Merci beaucoup. Ca marche très bien et c’est tres utile.
Translation :
Thanks a lot, it works very well and is very useful.
Comment by spisage 21 Nov 2003 at 2:39 pm
wow! wow! wow!!!
joe maddalone and you deserve sometime type of civil service medal or something!
i can begin to tell you how much time adn effort this will save.
thanks so much!
Comment by spisage 21 Nov 2003 at 2:43 pm
ops, in my exuberance i made a typo that affects the meaning of my post…
i meant to say i CAN’T begin to tell you how much time and effort this will save me.
i’ve already spotted a rendering flaw in a site i’m developing when i view it in ie5.5 (i’ve only been looking at it in ie6 up until now).
again, thanks so very, very much.
Comment by Dan 24 Nov 2003 at 7:11 pm
First of all thanks!
Second,
I’ve been doing extensive testing and so far the only incompatibility between the rendering of the standalone versions and the actual versions seems to be with IE5.5.
I downloaded a copy from the Primary download link above, but when viewing sites that use IE transform filters to enable the use of png files, they seem to be displaying at 100% transparent. (Tested on WinXP Pro)
Using a standard copy of IE5.5 on Win98 I have seen that the above techniques should render correctly in the browser, so I was wondering if in addition to the two DLLs commented on in the insert-title page, there were any more files that this behaviour depends on, or whether the files I have work only for win2k?
If anyone else can confirm that they have a standalone version which works correctly with png fixes for IE5.5 on XP please post here, as I would be very interested to know how you’ve managed it.
So apart from conditional comments, as far as I know there are no other rendering issues or scripting problems (apart from trying to use any of the standalone browsers for testing hta’s, of course. but now I’m just being picky).
Oh yeah, and thanks again!!
Comment by Paul Oosten 25 Nov 2003 at 5:01 am
Hi,
it works great, but now I’ve got a problem. Cliccking links in MS Outlook will open (standard) browser IE 6, but only the homepage is shown, not the adress of the link.
Any idea why this is happening now that I’ve got multiple browsers?
Let me know on poosten@planet.nl
Regards,
Paul
Comment by ccnk 27 Nov 2003 at 12:21 am
Hi, thanks for this! This will help alot of webmasters out there! Thank you so much!!!
From The Netherlands, Europe.
Comment by Euroman 27 Nov 2003 at 3:12 am
Hey! You’re a gentleman! I downloaded IE5.5 and 5.01 on my Win2000Pro sp2 and work fine! For those who say that their copies doesn’t work: if you select “Info on Internet Explorer” from “?” menu, you can say that the version is ever the installed on your machine, but if you follow this link http://www.insert-title.com/browser.asp, you can say the real version you’re using.
Thanks again!
Comment by Rostislav Chebykin 30 Nov 2003 at 3:58 am
Thanks a lot! A very useful thing, even in Russia!
Comment by Fries 30 Nov 2003 at 10:50 am
I made some visual tests using the IE 5.01 SP2 & Virtual PC with IE 5.01 SP2 (the real / the original) on an XP PRO and the results aren’t exactly the same.
I used the zengarden suite (www.csszengarden) to make my tests.
Strange, no ?
Comment by Zathrus 30 Nov 2003 at 8:25 pm
Superb, this is very much appreciated, wonderful job!!!!
Comment by dan 1 Dec 2003 at 1:54 pm
it doesn’t work for me on XP pro
Well I have 2 machine, one works, but the main one I use doesn’t
If anyone knows why please do tell.
Thanks
Yes XP pro
Yes unzipped
Yes tried on a different drive
Yes English US
Comment by Dan 1 Dec 2003 at 1:59 pm
Forget My last post about it didn’t work!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Putting 2 and 2 together I found the fix!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
For all of you that it doesn’t work, try this…it worked for me.
Example
For IE 5.01 I renamed
IEEXPLORER.EXE to IEEXPLORER501.EXE
And rename the explorer.exe.local
to IEEXPLORER501.EXE.local
And BANG
Got it…..Thanks
Comment by Boomer 1 Dec 2003 at 10:41 pm
Can anyone help me install IE 5.5 SP2 that I downloaded from http://browsers.evolt.org/ .
After downloading the 84 MB file I opened it and it unzipped into a new folder. But how do I install it now onto my pc? Can anyone help me out? I am using Windows 98 SE
Thanks
Comment by Ryan Parman 2 Dec 2003 at 7:46 am
Well, I don’t understand why you’d download and install IE 5.5 as your regular browser, when IE6 has much better standards support (although IE’s standards support is all-around quite poor).
You’d just have to look for the setup application in the root directory of the unzipped folder. I don’t have a copy on hand anymore, so I’m not quite sure.
If you’ve already got IE6 installed, and you’re just looking for the standalones, download them from here. It’s simple. If you’ve got a version of IE lower than 5.5, you can upgrade to that if you want (you cannot *downgrade* IE on Windows).
If you want an all-around better browser, go with the full-scale Mozilla ( http://www.mozilla.org ), or the smaller, more lightweight Mozilla Firebird ( http://www.mozilla.org/products/firebird/ ).
Comment by Boomer 2 Dec 2003 at 9:38 am
What is on my pc now is IE 5
I have tried IE 6 but it freezes all the time with Windows 98 SE. I have installed IE 5.5 from Microsoft before but I had to reformat my pc and I got IE 5 back and now you can’t get IE 5.5 from Microsoft anymore.
I don’t exactly know what you mean by the setup application in the “root directory” of the unzipped folder.
I have some programs that use to work in IE 5.5 but they won’t work in anything below that.
Thanks again
Comment by Bill Creswell 3 Dec 2003 at 3:41 am
I put this favelet in my link bar to verify which broswer I am using.
javascript:alert(navigator.userAgent);
Comment by Jason 4 Dec 2003 at 7:10 am
FYI
I had some trouble with the milonic dhtml drop down menu in IE5.5, it just didn’t show at all and gave me a “Library undefined” error. When asking for support the menu’s creator said:
“This problem is only affecting your machine. I can see the site fine as can everybody else.
What has happened is your IE5.5 DLL’s have either become corrupt or are un-registered. A re-install of the browser will normally fix the problem. We cannot capture this error as the libraries are telling the menu that it is OK to use them, when we do, they complain that we can’t use them because they are not registered in the registry”
================
Thanks for the info and ability to test in multiple IEs
Comment by Steve 5 Dec 2003 at 1:17 am
I am very interested in this but am concerned about the two problems mentioned:
1. Bob, and others, say the system crashes when attempting to use the favorites menu.
Does this mean a Windows crash or just the browser? Even if it is just the browser, does this mean that I will be unable to use and add to my favorites, even in the currently installed IE6?
2. Is the address bar lost for just the standalone versions or will I also lose it in the currently installed IE6?
Thanks for you help
Steve
Comment by Jochen Hauger 5 Dec 2003 at 5:42 am
Hosianna it seems to work ! thankyouthankyouthankyou.
The non us-en thing will not cause trouble – you can enter the page wanted into the start / home page field, save it there and view it – anything is working fiiiiiiiiiiiiine.
Comment by Jim 5 Dec 2003 at 9:44 am
Having a lot of problems with IE 6 it always says “Cannot find server” when I go to open my msn hotmail. I tried reinstalling it about 3 times now but keep geting this same error. I’m running Win98 SE and I’m going to uninstll IE6 and go back to IE5 or IE 5.5. Does anyone think this will help?
Comment by Jules 5 Dec 2003 at 1:29 pm
I now have IE5 (SP2), IE5.5 (SP2) and IE6 (fully up-to-date) running happily together on Win XP which saves a lot of time and effort chasing the quirks of CSS around the browsers! I’m just about to try and make my IE4 (SP2) work according to a couple of hints from the posts above. I’m sure the only people who still use IE3 are web developers testing their sites!
Thanks very much all round!
Comment by patrick h. lauke 8 Dec 2003 at 4:34 pm
read about this when it first hit the news, but only now got around trying it, and it works a treat (win2k sp4).
thanks for the ready-made, easy to install packs
Comment by JF 9 Dec 2003 at 9:53 pm
Geez people. I am trying to figure out why you feel IE is this important.
Don’t forget about Opera and especially the excellent browsers that
come with most Linux distros. IE works but also gives your info away
by default, allows virus infestation, and helps to feed the corporate
monster. But, thats ok.
Comment by Ryan Parman 9 Dec 2003 at 9:59 pm
JF, I think you’re missing the point. Personally, I’ve a Mozilla fan. But IE5 for Windows is considered the bottom-end browser, and we web developers (whether we like IE or not) need to be able to test in IE if we want to be practical and realistic about our craft.
Yeah, IE sucks. But it’s a necessary evil until Microsoft goes down, or the browser-ignorant can be converted.
Comment by Marek 12 Dec 2003 at 5:56 pm
>JF, I think you’re missing the point
quite true, as webdesigner I can’t afford to ignore the browser 95-97% of my prospective visitors use, MS beeing good or evil.
Marek
Comment by Andrei Smirnov 15 Dec 2003 at 8:33 am
ryan, ten thousand tons of thanks from russia. works fine on windows xp home edition russian!
Comment by S-World 26 Dec 2003 at 5:51 am
Very inspiring, thankyou! Good luck to you in the future.
Comment by Ryan Parman 12 Jan 2004 at 9:01 pm
I think I’m going to put together a FAQ for this…
Comment by Billy Bones 13 Jan 2004 at 4:13 pm
I have a big issue I need to make .NET components install on systems that run IE 4.7, is there somed way I can make it believe it’s 5.0 even when it’s 4.7? any ideas would be awesome.
Comment by Billy Bones 14 Jan 2004 at 12:58 pm
Does anyone know which pieces of IE 5.01 and higher are required for .NET to work? and if you do could I just replace certain pieces of 4.7? I know this is a little off the subject on multple versions of IE working at once but you people seem to have the IE program in pretty good understanding.
Comment by Matthew Deleon 15 Jan 2004 at 3:54 am
You’ve just helped make my development and testing of web applications much easier.
Keep up the good work
Comment by lazarenko 20 Jan 2004 at 5:33 pm
i have been dreaming of this for years… finally it is really true.
wow. this will make me sleep better….
Comment by Bill Curran 20 Jan 2004 at 8:26 pm
I sent an e-mail to Joe Maddalone and he is going to add this comment. You can use the .local trick to force windows to use any specific .dll or .exe from a given folder rather than the one it finds through Window’s normal path search. Creating the zero length .local file of the same name as a file in your folder will cause widows to use your copy of said file.
Use with care – this trick can backfire if you upgrade some software and have used the trick and then forgot that you had and then you can’t get new installations to work – so use with care.
On a more sobering thought – sleazeballs could use it to override the same things you do …
Comment by Graham 22 Jan 2004 at 1:26 am
I set up IE 4.01 a few weeks ago and today when I ran the trojan/bot scanner “SwatIt” it told me that shdocvw.dll is infected with “Precursor 1.0.a”.
Is this a known issue?
Comment by Lisa 28 Jan 2004 at 11:53 am
[Irrelevant Post -- This is not tech support for AOL or Internet Explorer.]
Comment by mmm 29 Jan 2004 at 9:35 am
Nice! Oh but I have a mac. Suggestion: make a new law to add to accessibility, that all browsers must be accessible, the same cross platform and cross browser.
That would take care of their inconsistant smugness.
Comment by jp 3 Feb 2004 at 8:53 pm
Thanks, thanks, thanks. I haven’t even tried it and I’m excited. I’ve got 2000MB bandwidth with my host (GoDaddy in AZ–I’m on Vancouver Island, Canada) and I only use about 10MB. Can I offer a mirror service? Just let me know if it would be helpful.
Cheers,
-jp
Comment by shu wei 7 Feb 2004 at 1:13 am
Thank you very much for your fantastic work! I use MS OS 2k/IE 6.0, and they works very well. but it seems they won’t work very well in other conditions, i tested them in MS OS 2k/IE 5.5 on other machines. especially, the IE 5.5 browser was dead when i tested it this afternoon, it couldn’t do anything but the system was still working normally(task manager didn’t show any exceptions). Must I install IE 6.0 in those machines to run IE 5.5? Any other solutions?
cheers,
shu wei
Comment by Anaxamaxan 9 Feb 2004 at 12:57 pm
To add to the ocean of gratitude: Thank you thank you thank you!
Since there’s an informal body of knowledge accumulating here, I also just wanted to point out that Ryan’s 5.0 and 5.5 do identify their User Agent string properly (mostly) to the server, in spite of the lying Help -> About. The “mostly” is that IE 5.0 doesn’t recognize Windows XP, identifying it as 5.0 rather than 5.1:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0; Feedreader)
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.1; Feedreader)
Lastly, Andrew above (Nov 2003) said he had problems with these standalones when browsing “DHTML” menus. For what it’s worth, I tried a bunch of sites using various such menus, and they all worked fine for me in the standalone browsers.
Comment by Stuart 14 Feb 2004 at 4:17 am
A bit late coming to the ‘multiple IE’ party, but I’ve just tried the procedure and whichever executable I run (v4, v5.01, v5.5) I get my IE6 version running.
I’ve checked with my own site for v4 (it should look a little different according to Browsercam), and I’ve checked v5.01 and v5.5 with the Tantek CSS band pass filters (http://www.tantek.com/CSS/Examples/) and they render identically to IE6.
I can only assume that it’s because my OS is Windows 98 (NOT SE) – in fact, I’m pretty SURE it’s because I’m using the earlier Windows 98 version as there’s some info at MSDN about DLL/COM redirection using the ‘.local’ hack/function:
“DLL/COM redirection is an application isolation strategy employed by corporate administrators on Microsoft® Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows ME, and Windows 98 SE. It is not available on Windows 95 or Windows 98.”
Right, now it’s off to try again on a different system with Win98SE!
Comment by Dazzla 25 Feb 2004 at 4:15 am
No, this doesn’t work.
I’ve been trying to make this work on W2K SP4 with IE6 installed. Running the executable from within the unzipped directory (C:\Program Files\Standalone IE) just runs V.6.0. System is set to US English.
I’ve just wasted half a day and am probably now going to lose this contract.
Still, more power to those for whom it worked.
Comment by Dazzla 25 Feb 2004 at 4:40 am
Oops.
Just retested using BrowserHawk and it is showing the correct versions, just not in the About… box.
Thanks for this miracle and apologies for the drama queen act. I don’t think I seriously believed that anything so incredibly useful could ever exist.
Thanks again,
Dazzla.
Comment by jimbo8 14 Mar 2004 at 8:52 am
If you can’t get it to work on win98, then follow comments by Dan above; and rename the executable with a corresponding change of the name of the local file.
Thanks Dan
Thanks Ray
Thanks Joe
regards
jimbo8
PS I live in the UK, so the comments on using US English may mean that this change is necessary for win98 users in the UK ?
Comment by Rajesh 25 Mar 2004 at 12:08 am
Hi Guys,
I am encountering some problem after installing multiple browsers. My default browser [when I click on links in files or shortcuts], it always open IE4.0.
Seems, IE4 had the habit of conquering the default browser place without asking the user.
Also, I cannot browse and check websites, if I directly type the url. It shows an error: http:/// cannot be found?
Any help there?
Thanks
Comment by bunnyhero 29 Mar 2004 at 1:25 pm
thanks for providing the downloads. awesome resource.
i’m having a javascript issue with IE4 standalone, however… i open a new window with var w = window.open(etc etc), but when when i try to write to the window with w.document.write(), i get a javascript error: “Class doesn’t support automation”.
anyone else get that? a google search reveals fixes for regularly installed IEs, but i tried those and they didn’t seem to work (involved regsvr32).
Comment by Pankaj Pyakuryal 6 May 2004 at 9:49 pm
hello,
i want this program coz my msn new virsion 6.2 is not working without internet explorer new virsion so, please let me download this software
thanks you
pankaj
Comment by eystein 13 May 2004 at 1:44 am
great stuff! perfect for compatibility checking
Comment by Bruce 15 May 2004 at 10:47 pm
Hey Skyzyx
just wanted to add my thanks for putting those together. I am not the most technically inclined guy in the world and prolly would have been fussing around with the tutorial for ages. This really helps a lot!
And thanks to Joe also for figuring it out
Bruce
Comment by Jez 11 Jun 2004 at 8:01 am
This is all fine and i have many versions of IE on my XP machine now.
BUT they all give a version number in ‘about’ as ‘Modified’.
I know what version is which but the computer doesnt seem to.
Now i cannot open Outlook 2003 because it wants at least version 4.01 of IE….
Do i need a reg key change to remind it what the main version is… and if so where… thanks.
Jez
Comment by Ryan Parman 11 Jun 2004 at 9:27 am
Jez,
First of all, these don’t do anything to change your settings at all. You just run them straight out of a folder. The about box shows the information for the installed version of IE (which should be 6.0). If you’re seeing “Modified” in there somewhere, then this is about your normal IE, and not the standalones.
Anyways, what version of Windows are you using? These haven’t been tested in Windows XP SP2 RC1, but it might be something that Microsoft is watching…
Comment by Anthony Lawrence 25 Jun 2004 at 11:40 pm
THE BABEL FISH OF BROWSERS!!!
Thank you for the most useful thing in so very long.
I just inherited a website and discovered through site stats that 65% of users,
use Netscape 4.7 or less and 30% Ie 5.0 and 4.0. All praise and honour be upon your names for making my job so much easier. All IE 3, 4, 5, 5.5 work along with Ie 6 Sp1 on Win 2000 advanced server.
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Multiple Versions of Internet Explorer
When IE 6.0 came out, designers and others were wanting a way to run multiple versions of IE on one computer. Microsoft set it up so that only one could…
Trackback by //gtmcknight 23 Nov 2003 at 12:38 am
Metablog Fun
In the last few days I have been making many, many changes to my blog. If you are one of my beloved commentors, you will notice I finally spruced it up with some css, so alas, there are still a…
Trackback by //gtmcknight 23 Nov 2003 at 12:39 am
Metablog Fun
In the last few days I have been making many, many changes to my blog. If you are one of my beloved commentors, you will notice I finally spruced it up with some css, so alas, there are still a…
Trackback by Weblog 24 Nov 2003 at 6:53 am
Hosting Multiple Versions of IE Browser
Includes a link to a tutorial and links to download old versions of the IE browser so that you can test your web designs and code against IE browsers. (Of course, BrowserCam is another, more comprehensive solution that shows how…
Trackback by AirProx & Co. 28 Nov 2003 at 1:08 am
Tester ses pages web sur plusieurs navigateurs
Le webmaster est tôt ou tard confronté au rendu des ses pages sur les différents navigateurs du marché, il est donc interressant de disposer d’outils pour contrôler l’aspect des pages créer.
Première méthode (la plus chère) :
NetMechanic propose Br…
Trackback by cogdogblog 17 Dec 2003 at 10:26 pm
Chasing Down the CSS “Peek-a-boo” Bug
There are a few threads to this story. I had seen an odd thing on one of our new XHTML designed web sites– this one uses an HTML <ul> list and CSS for rollover effects and graphic-looking buttons for the…
Trackback by KevinDonahue.com 21 Dec 2003 at 6:20 pm
Running multiple versions of Internet Explorer
One of the downfalls of running Internet Explorer on Windows remains the fact that it’s darn near impossible to have more than one version of the browser on a single computer/install. I know several folks that have older PCs for…
Trackback by CreativeNRG Blog 5 Jan 2004 at 5:19 am
Multiple versions of Internet Explorer on the same machine
Trackback by cogdogblog 24 Jan 2004 at 9:25 pm
Chasing Down the CSS “Peek-a-boo” Bug
There are a few threads to this story. I had seen an odd thing on one of our new XHTML designed web sites– this one uses an HTML <ul> list and CSS for rollover effects and graphic-looking buttons for the…
Trackback by CreativeNRG Blog 26 Jan 2004 at 5:48 am
Multiple versions of Internet Explorer on the same machine
Trackback by Virtuelvis 9 Feb 2004 at 1:30 am
IE5 is IE5 except when it isn’t
I mentioned Hack-free CSS for IE the other day. There is one caveat that should be mentioned. If you’re running…
Trackback by CreativeNRG Blog 11 Feb 2004 at 5:56 am
Multiple versions of Internet Explorer on the same machine
Trackback by Journal & Weblog 16 Apr 2004 at 6:12 am
Leuke software
Vandaag wees mijn collega Taco mij op een artikel op Skyzyx.com. Er zijn in het verleden wel vaker dergelijke pakketten geweest, maar nog nooit één die zich niet di
Trackback by Chinwags From Abu Dhabi 8 Jun 2004 at 5:23 am
Skinning Day Two
Sigh, its so easy to get frustrated with IE. It doesn’t do what its meant to and yesterday whilst tweaking skins it pissed me off so much :furious: If users switch to the Chalkboard skin, the navbar underneath the header…
Trackback by markda's WebLog 10 Oct 2004 at 3:34 am
re: Yes, you do have other web browsers
Trackback by Awake 21 Oct 2004 at 8:10 pm
Multiple IE Versions!
I’m still going through e-mail from last week and what I gem I found: A way to run multiple versions of IE on one PC! Get the scoop and the zipped standalone versions of IE here. Thanks to Kevin Yank…
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Comment by Markku 6 Nov 2003 at 12:09 pm
This is a very nice development for many designers. Thanks for having the zips available, and good luck with IE4.
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