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Standalone sandboxed IE6, IE7, IE8 executables (Recovered after a takedown)
- AdamTReineke 16y agoIf you didn't click the speaker icon in the upper right, do it!
- pestaa 16y agoI'll listen to this song every time when I get bored on Grooveshark.
- georgieporgie 16y agoThat is the most amazing soundtrack for a web page that I have ever heard.
- danheberden 16y agoAnd the backup plan: http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6168696/Spoon.net_-_Sandboxed_IE6_IE7_IE8_Standalone http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6168696/Spoon.net_-_Sandboxe...
- Groxx 16y agoI'm not getting any web seed activity. I'm guessing it might be due to the seeds linking to /spoon/ie6.exe/ etc, with the last slash included, which doesn't go anywhere if you visit it with a browser. Know of a way to edit the file?
- idonthack 16y agodoesn't your torrent client have the ability to add arbitrary webseeds to any torrent? just use that.
- Groxx 16y agoUnfortunately no, though I'm hunting for one that does, and lets me save it.
- mdaniel 16y agoDo you have python? And a BitTorrent encoding library: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/bencode/1.0 http://pypi.python.org/pypi/bencode/1.0 ? Then I have something which will help: http://pastie.org/1559062 http://pastie.org/1559062 It conforms to http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0019.html http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0019.html and can (of course) be trivially upgraded to conform to http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0017.html http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0017.html also. Happy downloading.
- danheberden 16y agoYeah, I don't think uTorrent created the urls properly. TPB reports "temporarily disabled" for editing the torrent though :/ I'll bump my seeding cap up a bit to help.
- Groxx 16y agoFixed it for you :) Also removed the now-non-existent tbp tracker (unless I've missed the news?) http://dl.dropbox.com/u/363028/temporary/Spoon.net%20Sandboxed%20IE6%2C%20IE7%2C%20IE8%20Standalone.torrent http://dl.dropbox.com/u/363028/temporary/Spoon.net%20Sandbox... edit: uh, I think. Transmission is throwing fits and not writing to disk...
- barista 16y agoUgh! Why not use ie 9 instead?
- brownleej 16y agoAs the site made clear, these are useful for developers that want a quick way to test that their site works in multiple older versions of IE.
- robflynn 16y agoIe9 allows you to switch the display mode between IE7, IE8, IE9. However, it does not allow IE6. Also, I'm not yet certain how accurate the older modes are. I did write some code with a known IE7 bug that worked fine in 8 & 9... and which I switched IE9 to IE7 mode the bug occurred as I had expected it to. (Press F12 in IE9 to see the option to select display mode). Apologies if this sounds kind of rambly, as I just woke up... Downloading these either way so that I can do some additional testing.
- danheberden 16y agoFor the most part the compatibility modes work, but there are inconsistencies - such as bugs that appear in IE7, but not in IE8 in compatibility mode. Its a headache, and one that's somewhat remedied by just using the actual browsers.
- robflynn 16y agoThanks for the info. That's what I was hoping to find out by having these. They now live happily within my suite of various development/testing tools.
- saurik 16y agoDoes Microsoft Expression Web SuperPreview (Microsoft's official tool for this purpose, which comes with the various rendering engines plugged into a meta-browser) have these same deficiencies?
- atomi 16y agoThe IE7.exe wont run on my system (Win7 x64)
- danheberden 16y agoDid you try running it in compatibility mode and as admin? It seems IE7 on win7/64bit is hit or miss :/
- atomi 16y agoI did, thanks for the suggestion.
- necolas 16y agoThis is great. I copied these .exe files out of my temp internet files a couple of years ago and have been using them ever since. Far more practical, and portable, than using VMs. I've got them in my Dropbox so I can even run a bit of cross-browser testing when I'm coding on someone else's PC.
- emehrkay 16y agoThere were exes in your temp internet folder? How exactly did this website work? Anyway, heres to possibly only having to run one vm (not likely since we test 18 browser configurations on average), but you get my drift
- herf 16y agoWhy not http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage instead?
- herf 16y agooops in fact the page talks about deficiencies in IETester for Flash, printing, etc.
- Confusion 16y agoIETester has always been convenient and sufficient for all my practical purposes. I think it's good to let people know about it.
- TeHCrAzY 16y agoIETester also seems to use the OS's installed version of IE's script engine, and not the target browsers engine.
- toni 16y agoThere is another package called "Utilu IE Collection"[1] which I have found more stable than Spoon.net versions. You can even install IE 1.0 [1] http://utilu.com/IECollection/ http://utilu.com/IECollection/
- endtwist 16y agoI just want to second this recommendation. It's a very thorough collection, quite stable, and helpfully has IE Developer Toolbar preinstalled on IE5 and up.
- nailer 16y agoUtilo greyed out IE 7 and 8 for me, and installed a crashing IE6 on Windows 7 32 bit. I have IE9 installed, so that may be been the prob.
- andrenotgiant 16y agoSame thing happened on Windows Vista 32bit with IE8 Installed...
- DanielRibeiro 16y agoReally great. Specially since as of now, Feb 21 2011, the spoon downloads on this article were taken out (it happend 7 days ago).
- ecaron 16y agoThis is really one of the only solutions for testing against the various IE images. The IE team tries to have people use their VPC images (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=21eabb90-958f-4b64-b5f1-73d0a413c8ef&displaylang=en http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=...), but they expire every 6 months (and twice I've had to remind the team that they haven't updated the images post-expiration).
- saurik 16y agoMicrosoft also provides Microsoft Expression Web SuperPreview. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=8e6ac106-525d-45d0-84db-dccff3fae677&displaylang=en http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=...
- walkon 16y agoExpression Web SuperPreview is really cool, until you try to interact with your page/site in any way. It can't even handle clicking on a link, let alone submits/POSTs.
- xilun0 16y ago> Microsoft Expression Web SuperPreview I wasn't sure wether it was the real name or a joke until I cliked on the link... For the record: it is the real name.
- saurik 16y agoI actually now regret having not used the /full/ name, "Expression Web SuperPreview for Internet Explorer". ;P
- psadauskas 16y agoThe benefit to the VPC images is that they can be converted to something VirtualBox understands, and used under OSX and Linux, as well. Still a PITA to have to do that every 6 months, though.
- AgentConundrum 16y agoThe only time I've ever tried to convert one of the VPC images, the guest OS decided that my hardware had changed too much and demanded that I reactivate it. Unfortunately, activation isn't available for these images, and the image became unusable. What's your trick?
- bbatsell 16y agoFour months now, and Microsoft recently made changes to the activation code such that if it can detect you're not running in VirtualPC (on Windows, natch), then it disables itself. I've tried multiple avenues of converting the latest timebomb (came out a couple of weeks ago) to both VirtualBox and VMware and have been completely unsuccessful.
- Luyt 16y ago"Developers, developers, developers!"
- angrycoder 16y agoI don't see the benefit, they will still expire. Make your own VM and install these browsers on it.
- hasenj 16y agoSadly it doesn't seem to run under Wine.
- w1ntermute 16y agoYeah, I'm getting this error: fixme:x11drv:sync_window_opacity LWA_COLORKEY not supported
- cookiecaper 16y agoWine is not a reliable platform for testing browser compatibility. Even when I have gotten IE working with ies4linux or a similar thing, Wine's IE still misrenders portions of the page occasionally (of course, depending on what version of Wine you're running -- I haven't tested IE in Wine for a long time). You need to use IE on a real Windows installation to verify it will work correctly for your users, Wine is just too much of a moving target.
- w1ntermute 16y ago> each full image of Windows dies 4 times a year Does anyone understand what he's referring to here?
- DougBTX 16y agoHe's referring to these: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=21eabb90-958f-4b64-b5f1-73d0a413c8ef&displaylang=en http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=... They are time-limited virtual PC images which expire after three of four months.
- w1ntermute 16y agoAh, I've never heard of those before. Are these commonly used by webdevs? bbatsell said they now only work on Windows, and considering that a lot of (most?) webdevs use Macs, they're probably not too useful.
- saurik 16y agoWhy don't more people use Microsoft Expression Web SuperPreview?
- glenjamin 16y agoI've never heard of it, or seen it referenced on any design blog, or seen any marketing of it whatsoever. I'm not necessarily claiming that I'm an accurate sample of the web development/design community, but it certainly seems to be pretty under represented. From what I can tell from it's product page, it seems to have a very gimmicky marketing-speak write up (count the number of times the product is named!). It also doesn't let you run IE7 and IE8 at the same time.
- d_r 16y agoI use this product, at times. I think it's an example of a good intention on Microsoft's part that hasn't been executed or marketed incredibly well. Any web developer worth salt has to preview their work on IE6-IE9. And everyone has to jump through hoops to make this work (And no, VMs are not an acceptable solution. Why should I bog down my machine with a VM when I just need an extra freaking browser?) So there comes Microsoft Expression Web SuperPreview. How did they even come up with such a name? What it does is it allows you to open several frames side-by-side, each with a version of IE. It's a great idea, it's JUST what I needed. But what it doesn't let you do is actually interact with the pages. You can only see, not click. Want to test a JavaScript behavior? Sorry. The gimmicky name and the lack of marketing evidently obscure it further. No surprise you've never heard of it. I completely accidentally stumbled across it last year. Edit: Link with screenshots: http://expression.microsoft.com/en-us/dd565874.aspx http://expression.microsoft.com/en-us/dd565874.aspx
- qeorge 16y agoBecause it only gives you screenshots, not actual webpages you can click. That might help find glaring CSS bugs, but is relatively useless otherwise.
- derleth 16y agoA way to get even older IEs working on, say, Linux with Wine is IEs4Linux: http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page This package largely automates the process of downloading and installing IE5, IE5.5, and IE6, with beta support for IE7, IE8, and IE9, and support for IE1, IE1.5, and IE2 almost as a joke. (Note: To install it on Ubuntu, update Wine using the PPA found at this website: http://www.winehq.org/download/deb http://www.winehq.org/download/deb) So it's not quite overlapping, but it's a similar project.
- riledhel 16y agoLast time I checked they were pretty useless. Went the VM route for testing on windows.
- gmac 16y agoI do IE6 testing in a Win2K VM, which has the advantage of being rather light on memory. But I find MS's apparent determination to make webdevs' lives as difficult as possible extremely frustrating. The time-limited VMs that used to work on Fusion weren't perfect, but they showed good faith, and the Spoon solution was really nice. What possible loss do they think follows from this exploitation of their IP??
- myelin 16y agoI'm getting 404s on all the .exe files. Gone already?
- workwells 16y agoSadly, I got the same.
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- ojbyrne 16y ago... and they're gone.
- philfreo 16y agolooks like there's a mirror here... no idea how it got there... https://www.transferbigfiles.com/efcac5e7-121d-44a2-b790-35a0b48fac27?rid=IE%2fiioL201h09C6O4F37%2fg%3d%3d https://www.transferbigfiles.com/efcac5e7-121d-44a2-b790-35a...
- javanix 16y agoI'm having a tough time running the IE7 executable in Windows 7. The VM popup shows up like IE6 and IE8, but the program window closes immediately. Before I dig too far into it, is anyone else running into the same thing?
- Groxx 16y agoI've been seeing recommendations to run them under compatibility mode if problems crop up; try that, and if it doesn't work I can boot 7 and give a couple things a try myself.
- Keyframe 16y agosame problem here, compatibility mode and disabling desktop composition does nothing. IE7 just pops and closes. IE6 and IE8 run fine. Win7 64 bit here.
- daakus 16y agoThis combined with MicroXP resulted in a ~500MB VirtualBox image with IE6,7,8 -- very impressive.
- ck2 16y agoIt was always really easy to "recover" these around the web, I've had all their old VMs for a couple years - including old Chrome and old Firefox. IETester may be a better way though http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage But find me a better way to run IE9 though on XP than a vmware box running Windows7 ? Two gigabyte image just to run IE9, yuk.
- originalgeek 16y agoI'll stick with my standalone (non-MS dev) VM images, thank you very much.