IE7 Tab Reported as IE6 / DebugBar forums

rhinox202 · 2009-04-08 16:57:13

Hi,

First off I must say, great piece of software. Been using it for a long time now and it really helps with development.

I was working on a site today when I noticed that my IE7 tab was being reported as IE6. I am using Windows 7 beta 1 with IE 8.0.7000.0 and IETester 0.3.2. I occasionally use a small javascript which allows me to send different CSS code to different browsers. This is how I noticed the problem.

The script is created and maintained at http://rafael.adm.br/css_browser_selector/. I can reproduce the bug, by opening his site in an IE7 tab and then viewing the IE Interpreted Source Code. In the <html> tag it says IE6... this should be IE7 (for me anyway). It can also be reproduced the same way on the site I am working on locally.

I just did a little more testing. The CSS code !important is respected in IE7, but not in IE6 (FACT). Even though the script is reporting IE6, the browser is respecting that code like IE7. This seems to be a problem with how the script reads the IE's version.

This script works perfect in IE7 and IE8 in IE7 standards mode. It also appears to work correctly in IE8 and the default tabs. I can not test it on IE6 or IE5.5 because it crashes, but you are aware of that already. Well, thank you for your hard work. I'm patiently waiting for IE6 in Win7 ;-) Thanks again!

Bob

fabrice · 2009-04-08 23:24:53

Hi,

It is working on my machine (Vista SP1). Windows 7 is not supported yet by IETester so it might be a side effect for this system.

riZkiT · 2009-04-22 12:21:00

I think I had the same problem.

I opened a page in IE6, IE7 and IE8 tab (all together with all browser option) but IE6 and IE7 tab had the same render engine.
I realized it because a conditional comment stylesheet for IE6 only was rendered in the IE7 tab.

Was the first time that happened (i think, but i'm not sure), makes cross browser debugging hard.
After closing the IE7 tab and reopen it, it worked.

- Windows XP SP3 (all updates)
- IE8 final (8.0.6001.18702) installed over IE6 (!), without IE7 installed before.
- IETester 0.3.2.

fabrice · 2009-04-22 12:29:25

I think this is due to the cache handled by IE. If one instance is loading the document before another one, and put it in the cache, maybe an other instance can get this version from the cache.

fabrice · 2009-07-24 22:26:59

Hi,

IETester v 0.3.5 is now working under Windows 7 : Note that it is still unstable and trying to open all version at the same time can crash the application.

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#1 2009-04-08 16:57:13

IE7 Tab Reported as IE6

#2 2009-04-08 23:24:53

Re: IE7 Tab Reported as IE6

#3 2009-04-22 12:21:00

Re: IE7 Tab Reported as IE6

#4 2009-04-22 12:29:25

Re: IE7 Tab Reported as IE6

#5 2009-07-24 22:26:59

Re: IE7 Tab Reported as IE6