[Irl-dean] CSS, Conditional Comments and Using Multiple IE

[Colm McBarron]

Sorry, wrong link for fusion

http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/

All the best,

Colm



On 22 Apr 2008, at 14:26, Colm McBarron wrote:

> Hi Josh,
>
> For all our browser testing we use virtualisation in the form of
> VMWare (fusion for Mac or Workstation for Windows)
>
> Fusion:
> http://www.vmware.com/products/ws/
>
> Workstation:
> http://www.vmware.com/products/ws/
>
> It allows us to run as many different versions and configurations of
> windows/linux on the same machine without the need to reboot (even at
> the same time).
>
> It also lets us setup various scenarios to test with - win 2k, xp,
> vista etc. as needs be. You can also browse to your own machine from
> within each of the environments.
>
> For browser testing - I have the following environments at my disposal
> - IE6 on XP, IE7 on XP, IE8 on Vista.
>
> There is some other virtualisation software available - but so far
> VMWare has been working excellently for us.
>
> All the best,
>
> Colm
>
>
>
> On 22 Apr 2008, at 14:13, Joshue O Connor wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have already asked Gez and Maura about this but I wonder if anyone
>> else has come across this problem.
>>
>> Part 1: I am building a website and I wish to use conditional  
>> comments
>> to serve different CSS files/rule to each browser as needed. I have  
>> my
>> CSS for "good browsers" and then I usually write more as needed with
>> fixes/variations for IE.
>>
>> However, with the following code I found problems with getting the <
>> IE
>> 6 rules to display at all.
>> < IE 6 were instead loading the style sheet
>> 'good_browser.css' (which is
>> for Mozilla etc and IE 8 where it works happily).
>>
>> Here is the code, any pointers appreciated but it is pretty OK.
>>
>> <!--[if lte IE 6]>
>> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../test/css/ie.css" />
>> <![endif]-->
>> <!--[if IE 7]>
>> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../test/css/ie7.css" />
>> <![endif]-->
>> <!--[if IE 8]>
>> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
>> href="../test/css/good_browser.css" />
>> <![endif]-->
>> <!--[if !IE]> <-->
>> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
>> href="../test/css/good_browser.css"  />
>> <!--> <![endif]-->
>>
>> But no matter what I did, it would not work and the good_browser.css
>> file seemed to consistently be the default for IE 6 and earlier.
>> Then I
>> came to the following conclusion.
>>
>> Part 2: I am using Multiple IE and I think I *may* have gotten to the
>> bottom of the problem. After much digging, there seems to be a  
>> problem
>> correctly using Multiple versions of IE on the same local machine,  
>> and
>> conditional comments. Basically when using conditional comments to
>> serve
>> different style sheets/rules etc, each browser will actually behave,
>> or
>> identify itself as the highest numbered version of IE that you have
>> installed on your local machine.
>>
>> For example, if you have IE 8 installed on your local machine, (as I
>> have) even if you open up say IE 6 or IE 5.5 to test how some style
>> looks etc, they will *still* be served the CSS/rules etc for IE 8 as
>> the
>> older browser seems to identify itself as the highest numbered
>> version.
>>
>> Any ideas, solutions appreciated as Multiple IE is great - but it  
>> does
>> need to work *properly* to be of any use for development. [1]
>>
>> Also if anyone has come across this and there is a patch or similar
>> (or
>> another way of really running different versions of IE on a local
>> machine please let me know).
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Josh
>>
>> [1] http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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