How to use Internet Explorer 8 to test sites in IE6 and IE7
The SelenIT habraiser has already written about something similar. But the Australian developer Elbert F. offers a new way to test the site "in IE6" using a piece of PHP-code.
Personally, I'm not really worried about how my sites look in IE6, 7, or 8. If I suddenly want to see this, I have a magic button . And for those who are worried, there are ways to test the site in these browsers.
If you have Windows XP or an earlier version, you can use the standalone version of IE6 . If you have Windows 7 (not beta), you can use Microsoft's free IE Application Compatibility VPC Image to run XP with IE6 or 7 in a virtual machine. If you have a different operating system (Windows Vista, Mac OS, Linux) and still have a Windows XP license, you can run it using a virtual machine like VirtualBox .
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Those who have IE8 - for you there is a simpler way. The Compatibility View will display pages as in IE7, and a missing doctype will cause your IE8 to show sites, as IE6 would do in compatibility mode .
You can simply remove the doctype from your web pages for testing in IE6. Or, if you are using PHP, add a simple switch to them:
Personally, I'm not really worried about how my sites look in IE6, 7, or 8. If I suddenly want to see this, I have a magic button . And for those who are worried, there are ways to test the site in these browsers.
Method number 1 (more difficult)
If you have Windows XP or an earlier version, you can use the standalone version of IE6 . If you have Windows 7 (not beta), you can use Microsoft's free IE Application Compatibility VPC Image to run XP with IE6 or 7 in a virtual machine. If you have a different operating system (Windows Vista, Mac OS, Linux) and still have a Windows XP license, you can run it using a virtual machine like VirtualBox .
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Method number 2 (simpler)
Those who have IE8 - for you there is a simpler way. The Compatibility View will display pages as in IE7, and a missing doctype will cause your IE8 to show sites, as IE6 would do in compatibility mode .
You can simply remove the doctype from your web pages for testing in IE6. Or, if you are using PHP, add a simple switch to them:
<?php if ( !isset($_GET['ie6']) ): ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-
strict.dtd">
<?php endif ?>Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/75276/
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