Monday, October 31, 2011

Website Test Different IE Version Compatibility

I designed a website and wanted to check if it would work across (compatible) major browser. My top headache is the Microsoft Internet Explorer. Its non-standard behavior causes web pages appear broken which they conformed in other standard-compliant web browsers. To make the matter worse, different version of IE that are still widely used (IE6, IE7, IE8, IE9) render different.

I usually test the website with different browsers. However, I only have one version of IE (For those using Apple Mac and Linux, you might not even have IE installed at all). Although I could utilize multiple virtual environments, but I thought that may other better options. I did some searches online and I found this awesome website. The website netrenderer (IE NetRenderer) provides free screenshot services of multiple Internet Explorer version from IE 5.5 to IE 9. It is an online tool suited for web designers to verify their web designs on all Internet Explorer versions without having multiple PC or virtual machine.

Below is a screen shot from netrenderer of Google News page rendered in Internet Explorer 6.




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