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Browser compatability tools for internet explorer 5

July 23rd, 2007 · No Comments

The good news…IE 7 sticks to the CSS rules pretty well as does firefox. The bad news, IE6 is a dog on CSS compatability.

Having looked through my logs its clear that users arent migrating the new imporved IE7 like they should. So when you build a site, annoyingly , you have to factor in the laggers.

2007 IE7 IE6 IE5 Fx Moz S O
June 19.7% 37.3% 1.5% 34.0% 1.4% 1.3% 1.8%
May 19.2% 38.1% 1.5% 33.7% 1.3% 1.4% 1.7%
April 19.1% 38.4% 1.7% 32.9% 1.3% 1.5% 1.6%
March 18.0% 38.7% 2.0% 31.8% 1.3% 1.6% 1.6%
February 16.4% 39.8% 2.5% 31.2% 1.4% 1.7% 1.5%
January 13.3% 42.3% 3.0% 31.0% 1.5% 1.7% 1.5%

Stats from: http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

To help you get around this pain in the neck situation, you need to see your site in development on IE6 - the problem is that Microsoft don’t let you run the ie7 +6 side by side unless…. you have a standalone version of IE6

check evolt.org for standalone ‘old school’ IE browsers 

or use this online browser compatability tool if you cant be bothered to download and install a new browser on you PC

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