So with the emminent release of MSIE 7 and FF2 I decided it was high time I actually check the main project I am currently working on for compliance. Its an ajax intranet application that has a little bit of layout and convinience magic. Step one is to become able to test these new versions without breaking my current setup.

In the past Firefox was only available without an installer. Now a days there is only an installer for releases. This is kinda annoying if you just want to test a given version. The only solution I found was to download a nightly. The annoying bit is that when you load a different version, it seems to trigger the extension version checker every time. Anyways I was able to test things on FF2 this way and all seems to be fine.

Next up was testing MSIE 7. The best I coould find was a little installer that would provide MSIE 7RC1 inside a standalone application. On the same site is another application that support various incarnations of the pre 7 versions. I only tried the RC1 variant and it seems to work flawlessly. The only thing I noticed that I was unable to pull up the JS error window. Speaking of which, my ajax application worked for the most part. There were some issues with some frames not resizing to smaller sizes or not keeping the same distances between eachother. There was also a JS error when hiding the menu via CSS. Nothing that would render the application unusable, but definately something that will need some tedious work.

I should have also mentioned the *nix variant of multiple IE.

Now if Firefox would publish a nice version history of their releases without an installer ...