Multiple IEs

6 May 2009

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I’m trying to get IE8, IE7 and IE6 playing nicely on the same machine. Really really want this for testing – and I’m having a devil of a job with it.  I’ve:

  1. Used the Microsoft installer to upgrade the regular IE7 to IE8.
  2. Installed IE7 Standalone to get IE7 working
  3. Used the Multiple IE installer from Tredsoft to get IE6 setup.

I’m now having a problem with forms – basically it’s not possible to click into or set focus on any text field when I’m using IE7 or IE6.  This makes testing web applications surprisingly difficult.

In addition, when looking at pages with IE6, I get continual dialog popup which reads “An error has occurred in this dialog. Error:84 Unspecified error.”

Other people have reported the issue of form selects not dropping down, instead triggering the popup blocker notification but I haven’t had that problem (yet)

As well as the Tredsoft installer, I’ve used the Internet Explorer Collection (This last isn’t much referenced – I think it’s because it lacks any details about who/what/why and wherefore.) Easy neat install, but exactly the same problems with forms.

U.A. Fanthorpe – 22 July 1929 -28 April 2009 RIP

1 May 2009

There is a kind of love called maintenance,
Which stores the WD40 and knows when to use it;

Which checks the insurance, and doesn’t forget
The milkman; which remembers to plant bulbs;

Which answers letters; which knows the way
The money goes, which deals with dentists

And Road Fund Tax and meeting trains,
And postcards to the lonely; which upholds

The permanently rickety elaborate
Structures of living; which is Atlas.

And maintenance is the sensible side of love,
Which knows what time and weather are doing
To my brickwork; insulates my faulty wiring;
Laughs at my dryrotten jokes; remembers
My need for gloss and grouting; which keeps
My suspect edifice upright in the air,
As Atlas did the sky.

U.A. Fanthorpe

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