Testing with IE7
As you may already know, I have been developing applications in Oracle and ColdFusion for a few years now, thus the theme of this blog. When developing quality web applications (using any technology) you have to test your application in as many browsers as you can. Most importantly, IE and Firefox. With IE7 just around the corner, how do you test your application against this Firefox contender without messing up your IE6 installation? Jon Galloway has the trick:
- Download the IE7 Beta 1 Install from MSDN
- Open the install file with WinRAR (yep, it’s an EXE, but it’s a self extracting EXE) and extract them to a folder. Alternatively, you can just run the EXE, make a copy of the files which are extracted in the first step, and cancel the install. I was too chicken to do this on my work computer.
- Look in the folder you extracted to for the file SHLWAPI.DLL. Delete this file.
- Create a new text file in the folder, then rename it to IEXPLORE.exe.local.
And you’re done. I must admit, I have not tested it myself. But hey, at least I know that I can try this trick when the time or need comes.
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- maxlength: Firefox vs. IE
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- Web Development with Firefox
