RE: running IE3 and IE4 on the same computer [was: Issue 1: Font- weight and headings]

Heh.  I can't really agree with that - having to "take the plunge" keeps
a number of people from installing IE4 pp2, when it really is a much
better browser than IE3 (IMHO).  And, of course, for testing purposes,
it would make life much easier if they could co-exist.

For technical reasons, however, it's just not possible.  You would have
to reboot (or maybe just shut down and restart the shell, but I believe
a full reboot) in order to switch.  There's certainly no magic
coexistence formula within Microsoft - I have a separate machine that
runs IE3 for whenever I need to compare rendering.

	-Chris
Chris Wilson
cwilso@microsoft.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Gordon Blackstock [SMTP:gordon@quartz.gly.fsu.edu]
> Sent:	Monday, July 28, 1997 6:49 AM
> To:	'Steve Mulder'; www-style@w3.org
> Subject:	running IE3 and IE4 on the same computer [was: Issue 1:
> Font-weight and headings]
> 
> Actually, this is one of the best "features" of the MS browsers.  The
> worst part of web development is having to accommodate people who are
> still using versions 1 and 2 of Navigator - "crippleware."  The
> features of the level 4 browsers [vs. level 3 and below] approach the
> differences between Lynx and the first version of Mosaic.  At some
> point, as developers, you have to make the hard decision to cut off
> old technologies;  how many of you still write and/or compile programs
> that will run on an 8088 or an 80286?  Better still, any TRS-80 UA
> authors out there? 
> 
> gordon
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Steve Mulder [SMTP:smulder@ziff.shore.net]
> Sent:	Monday, July 28, 1997 6:14 AM
> To:	www-style@w3.org
> Subject:	Re: Issue 1: Font-weight and headings
> 
> At 10:31 PM 7/26/97 -0400, Liam Quinn wrote:
> >(I'd like to 
> >confirm, but unfortunately Microsoft won't allow me the pleasure of 
> >running IE3 and IE4 on the same computer.)
> 
> May I just say, quickly and with great passion, in full agreement:
> ARGH!!!
> 
> steve
> 
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