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1. papab30
   Member

   Today at Mix09 Microsoft annouced a new tool to help out the poor web developer. It's called the Expression Web SuperPreview, a tool which will allow a user to view a website in a view of IE6 and then do a side by side view with either IE 7 or 8. A even cooler aspect is that you can do a rendering overlay. You can take IE6's version and overlay IE8 on top and see in realtime what the differences are in the way a page is rendered.

   Read more here: http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/03/19/microsoft-superpreview-website-tester/

   Download here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=8e6ac106-525d-45d0-84db-dccff3fae677

   Posted 2 years ago #

2. Ainslie
   Moderator

   It's good to see MS doing stuff like this. Maybe a real shift in attitude :-)

   Thanks for the tip. I'm downloading now. Pity it's 250Mb!

   Posted 2 years ago #

3. papab30
   Member

   For those that have or are downloading this cool tool. It seems that there are few issues and/or problems associated with it.

   If you only have IE6 installed, you'll only get IE6. With IE7 installed, you'll get 6 and 7. With IE8 installed, you'll get 6 and 8 with/without compatiblity mode. Seems that if you're running one of the Windows 7 betas, you won't get IE6 at all. So that's one issue.

   Firefox and Safari aren't support with the Trial Preview. Once Expression 3 comes out, you'll get full support for these browser also.

   When analyzing a page, SuperPreview is going to take up a lot of memory on your machine. There is a known work around for this.

   For some more detailed information, take a look at the Expression Team's blog at: http://blogs.msdn.com/xweb/default.aspx

   Posted 2 years ago #

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