Hi,

Thank you for your report, but it is not very clear.
You say there are differences between different IE versions into IETester compared to the installed IE.
The installed ie can ONLY be compared to the same IE version instance into IETester.
So, if a web site is rendering differently in installed IE7 and in IETester IE7, there is a problem. If a web site is rendering differently in installed IE7 and in IETester IE6, we can't compare anything.

I tried with "http://www.channelenablers.com" and the page is rendered the same in IE7 and IETester IE7 tab.

Also, I tested under XP SP2 with IE7 installed, and I suppose you have XP SP2 and not XP because IE7 needs SP2.

Hi Again, and thanks for the speedy reply.

Sorry, yes I am using SP2.  Lets forget the other IETester versions .. that does confuse things..

IE 7 Installed and IETester IE7 tab instance are displaying differently. ( The 'Default IE' instance also displays the same as the IE7 instance - that is different to installed IE7 )

I have been able to re-create the effect I am getting ( That is make my installed IE7 and IETester display the same  ) by selecting View > Text Size > Largest in my installed IE7 ... which seems to point to IETester somehow setting the selectable text size to largest ( or not controling it correctly. )

Perhaps a setting elsewhere in windows/ie setting. Any thoughts?

Thanks for sharing your fix !

This makes sense as most of the IE options are shared with IETester.

I am definitely having problem with users who can't read the announcment  that says that they should at least provide their os and installed ie version.

Also, your post is confusing because you said you installed IE8, and then you are talking about firing IE7... I don't understand this.

Which directions ? I never said that someone should install IE7. I'm lost. I am not sure to undertand.

If I am correct your platform is XP SP3 with IE7, is this right ? And the url to test is http://www.google.com , right ?

Windows Vista or Windows XP with IE7 (Windows XP/IE6 config has some problems and IE8 instance do not work under XP without IE7)

ok but that wan't clear so i did. Shall i try upgrading?

The page doesn't matter any page will do.

I appreciate your effort developing this. Can't help but think you are really up against it though. I thought I would test some JavaScript given that the fonts are wrong. That is gone caput too, it seems.

I don't know it this is down to he nitty gritty of registry.

Everything worked ok with Multiple IE. Just when I installed IE8 (which they told me to do last) then couldn't use text inputs the tex areas.

IE : 8.0.6001.18702

OS : Vista Ultimate SP1

IETester : 0.3.3

Website currently in build : http://79.170.44.107/jaswebsitebuild.co.uk/

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I thought I would add to this as I am experiencing font size issues.
I am developing a site in Joomla and in the css I am trying to implement ems for font size rather than px or pt.


I have got hold of a computer running IE6 and compared the screen on this with IETester IE6 rendering, and Multiple IEs on an XP machine

What seems to be happening is the H1 and P tags (which use ems in the css) are all larger in IETester compared with IE6 on the other machines. The other 2 computers are displaying the same (correct - compared to Firefox and Safari on this Vista machine) font size.

I initially got this problem across all browsers when I first started trying to use ems. This was down to me having issues with css inheritance when placing the text within a <p> tag which was in turn sat within a table ( <td> tag)

By setting the <p> tag ems size and then setting <td> to inherit I got it sorted!
Looking at IETester results for IE6 rendering, it looks just like I used to get before sorting the inheritance.

I love the IETester concept and would love to use it and ditch the other machines!
Hopefully this font issue some of us seem to be experiencing can be sorted

Hope this helps

Hi

Below are some screenshots to show the differences between IE6 on an XP machine with SP2 and IE Tester IE6

Also are screenshots showing IE8 comparisons which look to be doing the same.
IE8 was taken on my Vista machine (spec mentioned in previous post)

Many Thanks
Peter

Hi PJMFD,

I think I've had the same problem as you on my computer. The solution I found was this... as well as IETester I also have Multiple IE and IE8 installed. Looking around I found that IE6 had the text-size (on the View menu) set as Larger. I changed this to Normal and refreshed my pages in IETester and was surprised to see IETester was back to normal. This worked for me... I guess you might want to check this in any other versions of IE you have installed.

Hope this helps you find a solution to your problem.

C.

That's good, as it was my primary purpose of adding this text size feature ;-)