Internet Explorer 8 and Internet Explorer 6 side by side [duplicate]

Answer 1

Either run it in a VM, wait untill multiples get IE8 added or, use http://browsershots.org/ which will take screenshots of your website from several different Operating systmes, and browsers.

Answer 2

I've written a step-by-step blog post showing how to run IE6, IE7 and IE8 as "virtual applications" on Windows 7 Ultimate.

Answer 3

I use a utility called "Sandboxie" (free for personal use, $29 for commercial) to provide application sandboxing. One useful side-effect of this is that you can install applications (even OS-modifying ones such as IE) into the sandbox, and the parent OS is completely unaware (allowing you to have different versions of the parent OS's IE and the sandboxed IE - and both running simultaneously). The two scenarios I've used so far:

• Internet Explorer 7 in the parent OS, and uninstalled IE7 in the sandbox to make IE6 available
• Internet Explorer 6 in the parent os, and upgraded to IE8 in the sandbox

Caveats:

• If you need more than one additional version of IE available simultaneously, then you will need to purchase the full version, as you can only have one version of IE in a sandbox, and the free version supports only one active sandbox at a time
• Installing a version of IE into the sandbox can take a little trial and error - IE8 was particularly tricky. Some warnings that occur during installation (or uninstallation) are trivial, though.

Answer 4

Try this: http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage
LE: This isn't really fully compatible yet, there are a few minor issues, like it crashes on JavaScript pop-ups, but I've found it quite reliable during development. At the end of everything, I just tested the web application against a real IE6 to make sure everything's fine.

Answer 5

What I do is use VMware with other OS with IE6.

Not perfect, but it helps.

Answer 6

There's also IE7 standalone