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[kettch]

I am currently developing an intranet site for a company that uses IE4.0, 5, and 5.5. I have come up against the problem that 5.5 is the only one of them that reacts to CSS halfway decent. What i have had to do is place a javascript in the index page that redirects based on browser version and i maintain three seperate websites.

Short of having three computers on my desk, is there any way that i can get some tool that will show me how each browser version will render what i have written?

 

[GIGN]

Are you sure? It depends what effects you're after I guess - please don't tell me you've got colored scroll bars on your browser window (urgggh!) - you just need to get all the versions to test on that's all - but why aren't you updating them all to IE5.5?


b² - benbiddington@surf4nix.com

 

[kettch]

nothing nasty, just some positioning stuff and i'm trying to be a good little html writer and keep standards compliant. I'm developing a department intranet site and the reason they aren't all 5.5 is because there are far too many to do that to. about 300 at this site and more elsewhere. they are mostly pentium 133 clients with win95. While there is an effort to upgrade, it will take a while. For now, i just want to make sure that everything will work cross platform.

 

[joezapp]

One tool that lets you preview pages in different browsers is Coldfusion Studio - you can use the external browser settings (i.e IE4, IE5) or standard choices (Opera, Netscape, IE3+) to browse existing files on your pc or on the server. Its expensive if that's all you want it for but you can download a fully functional trial version free for 30 days that'll help you in development.

I just have all the different versions on my PC desktop and UNIX workstation to test with.

Joe.

 

[joezapp]

Meant to include this: if you want to download goto

http://www.allaire.com

 

[uladzik]

Why three versions for IE4.0, 5, and 5.5?
In my own experience, 99% of what I made with DHTML looked equally good in 5.0 and 5.5. I think you need only two versions. Isn't it so?
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[kettch]

for 4.0 i have just a plain html page with no css. as far as 5 and 5.5 go, there are a few things that are interpreted different. If you go over to

http://www.w3schools.com

they have some tables that show compatability of various css attributes with various browsers.

 

[uladzik]

kettch, thanks! this is a nice site you pointed to. unfortunately i couldn't find the comparison charts for browsers. can you give the URL? thank you.

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[kettch]

http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_reference.asp

here is a list of css attributes. However, i have found that you should always check even if compatability charts tell you it will work. Because i have found that some things will work, but work differently in different versions.