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They could still be right, though. Keep IE6 for that piece-of-shit enterprise web apps and still install Chrome or Firefox for the rest of your work. IE6 just
by mpyne 14y ago
They could still be right, though. Keep IE6 for that piece-of-shit enterprise web apps and still install Chrome or Firefox for the rest of your work.
IE6 just becomes the shell to the webapp instead of a browser in its own right. MS probably even has a way to install multiple versions of IE concurrently so you could run IE6 + "modern IE".
- eitland 14y agoUsed to be easier to do (ready-made script) in Linux than on Windows. (That is if wine was working.) On Windows I think the official way is runnng it in a vm.
- logn 14y agoYes, I don't know if MS makes it or another vendor, but you can get IE version whatever with an embedded IE 6. I've been at two companies now where this solution has been proposed.
- dave5104 14y agoActually, this is something I've been curious about for awhile: I know "modern IE" comes with developer tools that allow you to switch IE versions, and essentially look at the site at hand as if you were using IE8 or IE7, all the way down to IE6. From my understanding, a website can manually trigger this switch by using a special <meta> tag. Can't these legacy systems that only work in IE6 simply use the appropriate <meta> tag and have things work? What are the differences between using straight up IE6 and the IE6 rendering engine in IE8?