Comments on: IETester Finds Rendering Errors

By: Martin McNickle

Martin McNickle — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:47:46 +0000

@Blank Bellamy — I used to be in the same school of thought, that this was just another gimmick that imitated IE. However, I gave it a go and tested it, the results of which can be seen here: Test Results

IETester’s rendering was identical to the original. (Taking different resolutions into account and the limitation of browsershots).

I’m very happy with it and I have replaced all my virtual machines with one instance of IETester.

– Martin

By: PatrickMetz

PatrickMetz — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:19:50 +0000

I’ve been using it for the last two weeks. Conclusion: Very nice and reliable tool. Except for the known bugs i could not find any differences between the rendering of the real browsers and IEtester. Two thumbs up :-)

By: Black Bellamy

Black Bellamy — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:44:03 +0000

NOTHING beats a dedicated install. If you or your team are creating/working on websites and you don’t have a separate machine just for testing IE then you fail.

And you need the original IE. The one your users will be using. Not some adulterated version tweaked for testing.

I’m not knocking IEtester or netrender or whatever for casual use, but if you’re a professional there is no excuse.

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:54:00 +0000

A Mac version would be super swell.

By: Timmy Crawford

Timmy Crawford — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 03:45:36 +0000

Wow that is pretty sweet. I can’t stand testing old IE versions, and using browsershots or a VM is a pain. This looks pretty promising.

By: Thomas Murphy

Thomas Murphy — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 11:18:09 +0000

Thanks for the tip Mike.