{"id":664,"date":"2008-06-18T07:00:50","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T12:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/?p=664"},"modified":"2008-06-17T21:51:29","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T02:51:29","slug":"great-free-tool-ietester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/great-free-tool-ietester\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Free Tool &#8211; IETester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever I design a new site I like to have a look at in all kinds of different browsers to see how it looks. Now days I usually have a look at it with my phone as well.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most popular ones has always been Internet Explorer and as I have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/2008\/05\/05\/internet-explorer-and-my-new-site\/\" target=\"_blank\">written about before<\/a> Microsoft tends to make up their own &#8220;standards&#8221; and you can never be sure how your site is going to look in IE. Firefox has a cool little plug in called IE Tab that lets you switch between Firefox and whatever version of IE that you have installed in your computer.<\/p>\n<p>The problem becomes when you want to see it in older versions of IE. I don&#8217;t worry too much about version 5.5 any more, but I still see quite a few visitors stopping by with IE6 and once you have upgraded to IE7 it&#8217;s pretty hard to go back.<\/p>\n<p>I used to dig my old computer out of the drawer, fire it up and go to the new site, but now I&#8217;ve found IETester. It&#8217;s a free program that lets you view pages in IE 5.5, 6, 7 and even IE8 beta 1. It&#8217;s a really useful tool for web designers and it&#8217;s free.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.my-debugbar.com\/wiki\/IETester\/HomePage\" target=\"_blank\">Get IETester<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever I design a new site I like to have a look at in all kinds of different browsers to see how it looks. Now days I usually have a look at it with my phone as well. One of the most popular ones has always been Internet Explorer and as I have written about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}