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Some client of my dad's has this weird-ass backwards system that REQUIRES Internet Explorer 6.. not just IE, but SIX. So much suck.

Problem is my dad's laptop has Windows 7 and you just can't DOWNLOAD IE6 when you have IE8 in your OS... so I'm thinking maybe it could be emulated within Firefox or something, but google wasn't very helpful with version-specific emulators... you guys are all savvy with this stuff, so I thought you might have some suggestions?

I do web development for a national auto insurance agency, and it's surprising how many people still hit our site with IE6.

We use IETester for testing backward compatibility.
My DebugBar | IETester / Browser Compatibility Check for Internet Explorer Versions from 5.5 to 9

Tinwhistler said:

We use IETester for testing backward compatibility.
My DebugBar | IETester / Browser Compatibility Check for Internet Explorer Versions from 5.5 to 9

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Thank you thank you thank you I was looking for a way to emulate IE6/7 for a website I'm designing, this is grrreat.

That didn't work :/

What he specifically needs is to print something from a website they created that's ONLY COMPATIBLE with IE6... he can browse it fine with firefox, but it won't let him print... and according to the his client's IT people he needs IE6 to do so... any other way you guys could think of?

Fresh install of XP.

This might help: Utility to make web sites think that IE7 is IE6 for compatibility reasons - David Overton's Blog - David Overton's Blog and Discussion Site

Problem is he has IE 8 :/

Download details: Windows Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP

Or this might work better: Download details: IE App Compat VHD

Copy and paste? He could always just copy and paste what he's trying to print.

GasBandit said:

Fresh install of XP.

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OR Windows 2000

Soliloquy said:

Copy and paste? He could always just copy and paste what he's trying to print.

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No, it's a whole chart/table thing that gets dynamically created and its actually an official form that gets printed. Only he can't.

Den, thanks for looking those up man, but he has Windows 7 not XP or Vista :/ (Didn't I mention that in the OP? my bad)

Calleja said:

Den, thanks for looking those up man, but he has Windows 7 not XP or Vista :/ (Didn't I mention that in the OP? my bad)

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Ah darn, didn't see that.

Try this Internet Explorer - User-Agent test and override registry scripts

install xp and ie6 on a virtual machine. I do that whenever I'm contracted to continue some old work I did for a client years ago, because they don't wanna upgrade their systems.

I uh...

don't really know what a virtual machine is... does it entail partitioning or something?

Can you screen capture the pages, paste them into ms paint and print them that way?

'tis what I'd do.

No, it's an official form kind of thing... think of it as a sort of PDF the site creates that you can only print with IE6

it's not a PDF though, that would be too REASONABLE

A virtual machine does not entail partitioning or anything similar.

virtual machine - Buscar con Google

(I could choose a page for you to read, but I have no idea, so I figured it'd be the same amount of work for you. Also I should be going to bed already)

What do you mean it "won't let" him print? As in it doesn't allow him, or that it's just broken and doesn't work?

Windows 7 has an XP Mode which is a virtual machine but is free to dl.

ctrl + alt + shift + print screen, copy it into word, and tell the other company they need to upgrade their system.