Re: Older browsers

ayup, this is a great idea.   It also allows for easy expansion with
upcoming browser/OS combos.

Another suggestion for testing is that you have someone else do the testing.
Hopefully someone who isn't familiar with the app because they don't have
any pre-conceived ideas as to what will happen when they perform a certain
action. This way you get both error feedback and usability feedback while
you can work on another project,  the documentation for the current project,
or spend some time playing with your dogs :).

----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Smith" <wahikan(at)megapathdsl.net>
To: "Andre Crane" <andre(at)terracrane.com>; <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 9:07 AM
Subject: RE: Older browsers


> To make a bit more economical test bed purchase a bay drive and as many
bay
> housings as you need. You can then use just one machine to boot into
various
> OS's and Browser combos.  For under $75.00 I was able to get five test
beds
> running on old one to three gig HDD's and a PIII 500 I had laying around.
>
> Scott
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
> [mailto:owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org]On Behalf Of Andre Crane
> Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 8:59 PM
> To: hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
> Subject: Re: Older browsers
>
>
> I don't think that this is logical...
> It doesn't take into account all of the updated files that are placed in
the
> system or system32 folder or any other folders for that matter.  It could
> not be passed off as a fully reliable way of testing different browser
> versions.
>
> In my experience it has always been best to buy a few budget pc's, like
> 200mhz machines or celerons and then install the browser/OS combos that
you
> are building for.
>
> andre
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew Armstrong" <andrew(at)wisca.co.uk>
> To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
> Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 7:45 PM
> Subject: Re: Older browsers
>
>
> > I believe that there is a way. You need to use win98lite to unpick IE
from
> > Windows, then reinstall IE to its own directory.
> >
> > I haven't tried it, so I may be mistaken, but what you have to do is
like
> > this:
> >
> > Go to http://98lite.net and download IEradicator to first remove all
> > versions of IE from your system.  Then install the full version of IE 4x
> > into its own directory (don't use the default settings), followed by IE
5x
> > the same way.  What you are effectively doing is treating IE as an
> ordinary
> > application and not an integrated application.  Just remember you cannot
> > run two instances of two different version of IE at the same time.
> >
> > This came from Kukla Fran and Ollie on this list around mid August.
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <chip.wiegand(at)simrad.com>
> > To: <bryan.westbrook(at)amd.com>
> > Cc: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
> > Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 5:59 PM
> > Subject: RE: Older browsers
> >
> >
> > >
> > > That's my experience also. I have tried to put various older versions
of
> > IE
> > > on my machine, but
> > > they always find and overwrite the current installed version. Seems no
> > > matter which partition or
> > > physical drive I install them to. Netscape let me install 5 versions
of
> it
> > > on my machine and they
> > > all work fine.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Chip
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > bryan.westbrook(at)amd.com(at)hwg.org on 09/24/2001 05:11:39 PM
> > > Internet mail from:
> > >
> > > Sent by:  owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
> > >
> > > To:   hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
> > > cc:
> > >
> > > Subject:  RE: Older browsers
> > >
> > >
> > > It's also not possible (or at least not practical) to install an older
> > > version of IE on a computer that already has one newer than the one
you
> > are
> > > trying to install.
> > >
> > > To test backwards compatibility of IE versions, you will need several
> > > computers.
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Angel One [mailto:angelone(at)angelonearth.net]
> > > Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 2:01 AM
> > > To: hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
> > > Subject: Re: Older browsers
> > >
> > >     Here is the URL for Netscape:
> > > http://home.netscape.com/download/archive.html?cp=dowarc
> > >     In the past I've found I.E. is hard to find - it seems mickysoft
> > > dosen't
> > > want you to download the older versions. I've e-mailed them with no
help
> > at
> > > all. This has been a year or so ago; things may have changed........
> :-)
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>

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