You can install several different versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer concurrently on Windows. Finally I could see how awful my site looked in IE5 — and the truth wasn’t pretty.<\/p>\n
You can download standalone versions of Internet Explorer 3, 4, 5, 5.5 and 6 from the browser archive<\/a> at evolt.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n Update<\/strong>: The different versions of IE share their configuration and tend to look the same — only the internals are different (rendering, Javascript, etc.) — so it can be difficult to tell them apart. In fact, if you have IE6 installed, then the “About Internet Explorer” menu item always shows version 6, even if you’re actually running a different version.<\/p>\n I have seen a method of changing the IE title bar to include the version number. I didn’t like this because you had to download a hacked DLL and edit the registry: call me paranoid. Here’s a much simpler way, using a bookmarklet.<\/p>\n Just drag the following bookmarklet to your Internet Explorer Links bar:<\/p>\n