Comments on: IE At Virtual Arms Length

By: Gerald Combs

Gerald Combs — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 04:37:06 +0000

Ethereal was renamed to Wireshark (http://www.wireshark.org) in May 2006.

By: loom

loom — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 11:00:11 +0000

Very Helpfull

By: Thomas Aylott

Thomas Aylott — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 15:04:08 +0000

I just found out about tredosoft’s IE3-6 standalone installer when i needed to get the official IE7 installed.
Tredosoft’s installer also makes them all work with conditional comments.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 23:33:53 +0000

Tom,
The suggestion isn’t perfect and does have it’s inherent problems but for the most part it should work as the installations are in separate directories containing the required DLL’s. The individual browser version work due to DLL redirection which was introduced with Win 2000.

For reference: IE4 had the first version of the MSXML Parser (1.0). IE5 had the next version (2.0). From then until Version 3.0 you had to have IE5 to install those MSXML versions. From MSXML 3.0 forward the license doesn’t require IE5 for installation.

By: Tom Trenka

Tom Trenka — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 19:17:57 +0000

Scott, you missed the point: it’s not enough to run multiple versions of IE in the same OS, since a lot of the functionality in IE is based on standalone COM+ objects. How would you, for instance, test against different versions of the MSXML component with that setup (bearing in mind that that’s where XMLHTTP actually lives)?

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 14:23:15 +0000

Alex, This may simplify things a bit

How to run IE V7 RC1 in standalone mode.
http://tredosoft.com/IE7_standalone

How to install multiple version of IE ( IE3 IE4.01 IE5 IE5.5 and IE6 )
http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE