Re: Older browsers

But Windows is too clever for your own good, and has been known to be
affected by changes made on another partition that was nominally hidden when
you booted to a different partition.

Andrew

----- Original Message -----
From: "apathetic" <tim(at)apatheticgenius.com>
To: "Scott Smith" <wahikan(at)megapathdsl.net>; "HWG" <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 10:27 PM
Subject: Re: Older browsers


> Or you could simply create several partitions on one drive.
>
> Tim
>
>
>
>
> ----- 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 2:07 PM
> 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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