Multiple Standalone Internet Explorer Browsers Evolved

Posted March 7, 2007

Tredosoft Logo Tredosoft has developed a nice little installer that will package up all of the stand alone versions of Internet Explorer into an easy executable.

For awhile I had known about the discovery of multiple Internet Explorers made by Joe Maddalone in 2003, but not until today did I know about this little installer. Now, in theory it’s not that big of a deal, I already had the Internet Explorer version I was testing for, and it worked fine in my workflow. But, those old browsers didn’t understand Microsoft’s conditional comments, which is bread and butter when you are trying to get a website to look the same.

There was a fix that was found for this on “Position is Everything - Taming Your Multiple IE Standalones” website article. This was then wrapped up into the Tredosoft package that makes the developers lives even easier.

All of the versions of the browsers don’t seem to be working on my 64 bit system at work, but that is understandable, I have a lot of issues with that with other software anyway. I just wonder if it works on Vista and / or Windows Media Center edition 2005. I didn’t see a forum at the Tredosoft website, only a long obnoxious series of users comments on the homepage for the installer.

Thanks to Chip to pointing this out to me, he has come a long way from knowing nothing about web design just a short while ago to finding this before I did. Thanks man.