Comments on: IE7 parallel with IE6 (on XP anyway) http://atylmo.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/ie7-parallel-with-ie6-on-xp-anyway/ Living life on the vertices Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:54:05 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: atylmo http://atylmo.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/ie7-parallel-with-ie6-on-xp-anyway/#comment-333 atylmo Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:12:27 +0000 http://atylmo.wordpress.com/?p=1020#comment-333 Sorry for being so long-winded about it. :P Sorry for being so long-winded about it. :P

]]> By: Gabe http://atylmo.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/ie7-parallel-with-ie6-on-xp-anyway/#comment-332 Gabe Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:07:23 +0000 http://atylmo.wordpress.com/?p=1020#comment-332 I can see how that would help now. I can see how that would help now.

]]> By: atylmo http://atylmo.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/ie7-parallel-with-ie6-on-xp-anyway/#comment-331 atylmo Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:54:46 +0000 http://atylmo.wordpress.com/?p=1020#comment-331 Well, when I start IE from the icons in the pic, a dialog pops up saying it’s “Internet Explorer Compatibility Mode”. Yes that is rather unrelated. It’s probably good for web developers, if nothing else. It’s hard for web developers to maintain support for IE6 because it was like teh suck at everything ever and needed special workarounds and hacks for a lot of web coding. But they still need to maintain that support because surprisingly a lot of people still use IE6 — if I’m not wrong it was the last IE upgrade for Windows 2000. And since web developers need to test new browsers as well as more common older ones, having the ability to have more than one IE version at the same time is probably pretty nice. Usually, or at least I always thought, that once IE was upgraded two versions couldn’t be used at the same time, or even installed together on the same computer (at least from IE5 up). I’d imagine this made it pretty hard to develop for a browser you didn’t have access to anymore. Also, having IE6 in general is probably a nice fallback if some site decides to up and choke on you on a newer IE version. I’d say “use another browser” but sites that choke based on browser version also…tend to require IE. Natch. But like I said this is probably age-old news now; frankly I didn’t want to check and then lose the motivation to post :P I just thought it was cool. Thanks :D Well, when I start IE from the icons in the pic, a dialog pops up saying it’s “Internet Explorer Compatibility Mode”. Yes that is rather unrelated.

It’s probably good for web developers, if nothing else.
It’s hard for web developers to maintain support for IE6 because it was like teh suck at everything ever and needed special workarounds and hacks for a lot of web coding.

But they still need to maintain that support because surprisingly a lot of people still use IE6 — if I’m not wrong it was the last IE upgrade for Windows 2000.

And since web developers need to test new browsers as well as more common older ones, having the ability to have more than one IE version at the same time is probably pretty nice.

Usually, or at least I always thought, that once IE was upgraded two versions couldn’t be used at the same time, or even installed together on the same computer (at least from IE5 up). I’d imagine this made it pretty hard to develop for a browser you didn’t have access to anymore.

Also, having IE6 in general is probably a nice fallback if some site decides to up and choke on you on a newer IE version. I’d say “use another browser” but sites that choke based on browser version also…tend to require IE. Natch.

But like I said this is probably age-old news now; frankly I didn’t want to check and then lose the motivation to post :P I just thought it was cool.

Thanks :D

]]> By: Gabe http://atylmo.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/ie7-parallel-with-ie6-on-xp-anyway/#comment-329 Gabe Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:30:39 +0000 http://atylmo.wordpress.com/?p=1020#comment-329 What point does "Side-By-Side" mode serve exactly? Nice post. What point does “Side-By-Side” mode serve exactly?

Nice post.

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