New found old IEs

Once again, very similar to [before](http://un-excogitate.org/wp/archives/2004/08/23/fonts-seem-more-natural/), i find myself wondering why i never stumbled upon this useful page before.

Just the other day i was wondering to myself why i didn’t have multiple versions of [Internet Explorer](http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie) installed on my home machine, which would allow me to debug web-pages in older copies of IE (as it’s usually the poor bastards on IE5 or 5.5 that cause me the most grief!), so it was with much relief that after stumbling onto [What Do I Know](http://www.whatdoiknow.org/) from [Stopdesign](http://www.stopdesign.com) that i ended up at [Skyzyx.com](http://www.skyzyx.com).

Ryan over at [skyzyx.com](http://www.skyzyx.com) very conveniantly has put together a collection of downloads that will allow IE browsers all the way back from IE3 (to IE5.5) to be installed in their own stand-alone folders, which i’m hoping (please god) that they don’t interfere too much with my currently installed version of IE6 (don’t worry, i don’t use it - i’m a [Firefox](http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox) bitch).

What was interesting was going back to IE3, loading up un-excogitate.org and seeing that it doesn’t load up any of the CSS at all, but reverts back to the text based layout (which is fine with me) .. in fact, what amazed me was the fact that both IE5 and IE5.5 seemed to render my page fine! This mainly came as a shock to me because my header-navigation employs [Dave's](http://www.mezzoblue.com) technique of using a single image for the mouseovers, as written up over at [A List Apart's](http://www.alistapart.com/) article: [Image Slicing's Kiss of Death](http://www.alistapart.com/articles/sprites/).

Unfortunately for my humble domain, IE4 has the most difficulty rendering the page. Navigation is all whacky, even the blog-text comes out strange. I’m guessing there’s some way that i can tell IE4 to not use the CSS, but then again, i think that if i go back through my logs, my experiment might have been the first time that IE5 had even accessed this site.

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Posted by Christian 28 August 2004

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