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Through Parallels, Mac users can run Windows programs. Regardless of what operating system you run, as a web developer you should never ignore Internet Explorer.  There are still plenty of people using the browsers because it still runs natively in Windows.

The best way I found to get IE6 and IE7 on my Mac was to use parallels and upgrade to Windows to IE7, then install MultiIE to get IE6 running. Take a look at this screenshot to see it in action:

It looks kind of strange to see a windows taskbar on a Mac, but hey - now I have both IE6 and IE7 running great on my Mac to fulfill my web development needs.

A friend sent me an standalone version of IE6 (Eolas version) today. I booted IE6 up on my machine with ease and my first question was, "Is this legal"? Well, I did some research and I was astonished by what I found!

Tredosoft's Install multiple versions of IE on your PC - YES, thats right, you can install IE3 IE4.01 IE5 IE5.5 and IE6 on your computer! Now you can see what grandma sees when she checks her email with IE 4.01! I'm kidding - of course the main purpose of these older editions is for testing and fixing old IE bugs.

All of the versions of IE were installed on my computer in a minute. The only stipulation that I found was this:

Microsoft supplemental EULA says : IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A VALID EULA FOR ANY "OS PRODUCT", YOU ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO INSTALL, COPY, OR OTHERWISE USE THE OS COMPONENTS AND YOU HAVE NO RIGHTS UNDER THIS SUPPLEMENTAL EULA.

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I am truly amazed.

I checked my analytics today to see what browsers people are using to view my site. Most of you are all tech-savvy Fire Fox users, but I was surprised to find out that over 60% of my IE visitors are using Internet Explorer 6!

I did some research and found out that you can run IE6 and IE7 on the same machine! UPDATE: I found out that you can run IE3 IE4.01 IE5 IE5.5 and IE6 on the same computer.

Just download their virtual machine and run the IE6 image. Its slick! Then attach the IE specific style sheet with the following code.

Html:

<!--[if IE 6]>

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://marcgrabanski.com/css/ie6.css"/>

<![endif]-->

Fix your IE6 bugs in the new IE6 style sheet. Problem solved!

The following video displays very nicely that you should not be using IE6 and switch to FireFox 2.