Luckily, enterprising developers have proven this to not be the case.
Online, there are now a number of sites that enable you to install standalone versions of
previous incarnations of Internet Explorer. By far the best is Tredosoft??™s effort, which packages
everything up into a no-nonsense installer. This enables you to install standalones for
Internet Explorer versions from 6 way back to 3 (the following image shows an example of
three versions of Internet Explorer running simultaneously). Usefully, conditional comments
work fine, too, which wasn??™t the case with earlier standalones. Download the
installer from www.tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE. Alternatively, you can manually install the
versions you require from Evolt (http://browsers.evolt.org/) and use the information
at Position Is Everything (www.positioniseverything.net/articles/multiIE.html) to
repair lost functionality.
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In a similar vein, Michel Fortin has produced standalone versions of Safari for the Mac,
available from www.michelf.com/projects/multi-safari/. However, because of the
nature of WebKit (the application framework that??™s the basis for Safari), there are limitations
regarding which versions of the browser can be run on which versions of Mac OS X.
David Hellsing of David??™s Kitchen also notes in his ???Browser Suite for Developers??? article
(www.monc.se/kitchen/91/browser-suite-for-developers) that you can use the WebKit
nightly builds instead of the public downloads, in order to test in multiple versions of
Safari.
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