Facing the Sevens October 25, 2006

Yes, the Mets lost game seven in dramatic fashion, with Beltran not protecting the plate. Bases loaded, 2 strikes & he’s not protecting the plate? Very upsetting, but time to move on. They gave Met fans a great season & will make victory that much sweeter. Mets in 2007!

And now for Internet Explorer Seven. The simplest way ever to upgrade to IE 7 without losing 6 is as follows:

Upgrade to Seven as if you could care less about six. Then use this multiple IE installer to get IE six back. Works like a charm, especially if neither version of IE will be your main browser & used primarily for testing. The only difference I can see right now is that IE 6 now uses the new Quartz rendering that comes with IE 7 to make it’s fonts pretty, as if you were on a mac. I just did this this morning, so there may be some Inaccuracies, but I have already seen my 7 & 6 standalone versions rendering CSS correctly & incorrectly respectively.

I hear the Microsoft auto updates, which I imagine most IT departments have in place, will push IE 7 on users in November some time. It’ll be interesting to see the stats on browser versions when that happens.

Update: I am seeing what appear to be bugs in the IE 6 rendering, for example, ignoring an entire page of code for no apparent reason. Still can be useful for IE 6 testing, but may always want to break out that old ass laptop that has an original IE 6 for a more thorough test.

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