IE5 vs IE6

[jmm-list-gn]

Hello,
Quick question: If I get a page to display as I wish in IE5, can I
expect it to display the same in IE6?

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[Lauri Raittila]

In article <i5********************@giganews.com>, jmm-
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Hello,
Quick question: If I get a page to display as I wish in IE5, can I
expect it to display the same in IE6?

No.

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[brucie]

In comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets jmm-list-gn said:

Quick question: If I get a page to display as I wish in IE5, can I
expect it to display the same in IE6?

maybe/maybe not. most probably not. it depends on each case but there
were huge changes between IE5, IE5.5 and IE6. you can easily achieve 3
different renderings.

personally i don't give a [beeep] what 5, 4 and 3 year old browsers may
or may not do.

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[jmm-list-gn]

jmm-list-gn wrote:

Hello,
Quick question: If I get a page to display as I wish in IE5, can I
expect it to display the same in IE6?

The consensus is: Get real!
Crud. I was afraid of that.
I wanted to have both IE5 and IE6 on my computer for testing. It is the
impossible dream. MS has so munged their OS that it is only possible to
upgrade the existing IE5 to IE6, not have two versions available at the
same time. :-(
My website statistics (using analog) show that Windows is 70% of the
OSes that access the site, with win2k and winxp being over 80% of the Win
versions. The browser report indicates that about 5% of the IE versions is
not v6. So: it looks like it is reasonable to do the upgrade then.

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[Andrew Thompson]

On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 12:32:48 -0700, jmm-list-gn wrote:

I wanted to have both IE5 and IE6 on my computer for testing. It is the
impossible dream.

Not necessarily. It has been done successfully.
<http://www.google.com/search?q=%22internet+explorer%22+versions+multiple >

I have 'heard of it' rather than tried it myself.

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[Neal]

On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 19:40:19 GMT, Andrew Thompson <Se********@www.invalid>
wrote:

On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 12:32:48 -0700, jmm-list-gn wrote:

I wanted to have both IE5 and IE6 on my computer for testing. It is the
impossible dream.

Not necessarily. It has been done successfully.
<http://www.google.com/search?q=%22internet+explorer%22+versions+multiple >

I have 'heard of it' rather than tried it myself.

See:
http://labs.insert-title.com/labs/article.aspx?ID=795
http://labs.insert-title.com/labs/article.aspx?ID=808
http://labs.insert-title.com/labs/article.aspx?ID=809

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"Neal" <ne*****@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 19:40:19 GMT, Andrew Thompson <Se********@www.invalid>
wrote:

On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 12:32:48 -0700, jmm-list-gn wrote:

I wanted to have both IE5 and IE6 on my computer for testing. It is the
impossible dream.

See:
http://labs.insert-title.com/labs/article.aspx?ID=795
http://labs.insert-title.com/labs/article.aspx?ID=808
http://labs.insert-title.com/labs/article.aspx?ID=809

Using insert-title's trick I have been able to add IE5.0 and IE5.5 to IE6.
There are minor instabilities with IE5.x, but its good enough for testing.

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On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 01:25:04 -0700, jmm-list-gn
<jm***************@sohnen-moe.com> wrote:

Hello,
Quick question: If I get a page to display as I wish in IE5, can I
expect it to display the same in IE6?

Not in my experience. Most of the time it's been different in my
testing. I'm starting to not care about IE5 versions. It's simply too
much effort for work-arounds. IE6 is hard enough...

Opera and Moz have been joys to test CSS with (almost always looking
identical to each other with a properly-coded CSS page), and I'm
starting to use one of the tiny banners here:
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates/homepage
....on sites I'm allowed to :)

All in an effort to avoid cruelty to webmasters and slowly make
changes. I think IE's market share is gonna shrink a lot by the time
they release their new one (which is dependent on you buying a new OS,
as I understand it). I think that's a big mistake on their part and
great for real browsers like Opera and Mozilla (and real web
standards), an issue that I can't help but hold close to my heart
after spending countless hours getting stuff to work properly in IE,
and no doubt countless more...