Notes Design

If you don’t know why the headline of this post necessitated an exclamation mark, it’s because Microsoft stopped making Internet Explorer for a Mac at version 5. They’re now up to version 7. Why do I care? Well, if I wasn’t a web designer, I wouldn’t. I love me some Firefox, and am completely happy using it as my everyday browser. As a web designer, though, I need to test the sites I design on a variety of platforms and with different browsers. I do have a PC running Windows, but I have Explorer 7 installed on that computer and in a move that makes web designers everywhere grind their teeth into little nubs, you can’t run multiple versions of Explorer on the same machine (well, not easily). And Explorer 6 and Explorer 7 have completely different sets of bugs and quirks.

All praise YouTube. I did a Google search for “view internet explorer 6 on a Mac” and came to this video, with links to a site that allows you to have “several versions of IE installed side by side… try that on a PC ;).”

I now officially love Mike Kronenberg. A donation is headed your way shortly.