Testing multiple IEs in the same process

I’ve been doing a lot of testing lately with the impending release of our library for MooTools 1.2, and testing in all the versions of IE is a pain. Well, maybe not anymore:

via Ajaxian:

Testing your sites on different versions of Internet Explorer has always been notoriously difficult mainly due to the fact that Microsoft prevents you from running to different versions of the browser in Windows. Sure there have been solutions to get around this limitation but in my experience, they’ve always caused unexpected results and instability for the operating system or required you to run a VM. Not ideal.

Jean-Fabrice RABAUTE, the man behind the IE debugger DebugBar, has come up with a nice solution he’s called IETester. This free tool allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8 beta 1, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process.

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3 Responses to “Testing multiple IEs in the same process”

  1. section31 Says:
    June 23rd, 2008 at 10:59 am

    How did this work out for you aaron? Does this work well?

  2. Aaron N. Says:
    June 23rd, 2008 at 11:22 am

    It’s definitely still beta software. I think it’s been updated since this post though. It worked pretty well. It’s still IE, and IE still sucks, so any complaints I had really still are with IE…

  3. section31 Says:
    June 23rd, 2008 at 11:38 am

    hey Aaron are you on irc, I wanted to ask you something about your upcoming book.

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