DebugBar forums / Windows 7, IE Tester 0.4.1 with IE 7 Required?

riotaj · 2009-10-17 09:43:45

Firstly, I would like to thank you all for developing this application. It is by far the best IE testing software out today.

I had a thought: Why make IE tester on Windows 7 require IE7 instead of IE8 (which, correct me if I am wrong, it ships with)? This means that users would have to knowingly downgrade their installed version of IE.

The other option would be to make IE Tester work for both the IE7 and IE8 base.

Would IE8 integration be possible? Let me know your thoughts. Thanks again!

-Adam
http://www.adamjohnsondesign.com/

Info:
Running Windows 7 Enterprise RTM with IE8, Firefox 3.5, and Chrome 3.0.

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Resolved Below

IE Tester can have IE7 or above installed to work. The issue here dealt with "Font Size" displaying pages strangely. If your page is displaying elements improperly, make sure you define a "font-size" property to your body tag in your css file. Example markup:

body { font-size: 16px; }

Last edited by riotaj (2009-12-01 09:32:28)

fabrice · 2009-10-17 09:55:55

Hi,

I don't understand your question. IETester does not require IE7 to be installed.

I'm under Windows 7, I have IE8 installed, and IETester is working fine.

riotaj · 2009-10-17 21:56:24

While IE tester does actually function if you have IE8 installed, IE Tester does not render some of those pages properly (at least under the Win7 & IE8 environment).

For example, when viewing http://www.adamjohnsondesign.com/ in IE8 in IE Tester, the way it renders is very different (nav is too far below where it should be and the heading is almost not visible) than when it is viewed in the real IE8. This issue can also be viewed at http://www.jimrockis.com/ .

Clearly, this is not a global issue across all sites. I noticed that other sites (that I know look ok in various IE versions) look fine in IE tester under this OS & version of IE. eg: http://cce.wvu.edu

Any thoughts?

Thanks for the help!

-Adam

fabrice · 2009-10-17 22:21:19

Hi,

Maybe I am missing something but I tried the 3 links you provide and they render exactly the same in the real IE8 under my Windows 7 machine and in the IE8 in IETester.

Can you be more precise about the differences between rendering. The best would be to provide screenshots if it does not take too much time...

Thanks.

riotaj · 2009-10-17 22:34:10

UPDATE:

I think I figured out what was going on. I opened those aforementioned pages in IE Tester and went to change my Font Size in the Dev Tools panel and, as soon as I reduced the font to "Small", the page rendered correctly.

I am sure this is my error, but would this setting have been saved from when I previously ran IE Tester? Theoretically, this setting should reset to the default of the page when IE Tester closes in order to avoid issues like this.

Example of the Problem:

http://www.zooomr.com/photos/riotaj/8343973/

What the page should normally look like:

http://www.zooomr.com/photos/riotaj/8343972/

Let me know your thoughts. Cheers!

-Adam

fabrice · 2009-10-17 22:43:20

I am sure this is my error, but would this setting have been saved from when I previously ran IE Tester? Theoretically, this setting should reset to the default of the page when IE Tester closes in order to avoid issues like this.

That's a good question. I don't know how it behaves, that means, if the font size is saved between page navigations, or between sessions, etc..

So the best so far, is to reset manually the font size when a problem is encountered to check if the problem is the font size.

riotaj · 2009-10-17 23:08:22

Thanks for the help! Much appreciated.

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Windows 7, IE Tester 0.4.1 with IE 7 Required?

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