If you’re like me and totally PC free (mac only) – anytime you make any design changes on a website, you don’t have any way to check compatibility in Internet Explorer without bugging one of your friends. Well, luckily there’s a tool for all of us.
NetRenderer is a simple yet brilliant tool that allows you to view how webpages appear in Internet Explorer versions 5.5, 6, 7, & 8. One place to see your website in IE as far back into compatibility history as you’d like.
Simply input your URL, and select the version of IE to render:
And voila! It spits out the page rendered in IE. (This site doesn’t look so good in IE 5.5):
Sweet, simple, and extremely useful. Since getting rid of my PC that I pretty much only used for IE compatibility checks, I’ve come to rely on it.
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