Unfortunately, you can only usually have one version of IE installed on your computer.

Now Micrsoft has come out with a way preview web pages with multiple versions of IE.

SuperPreview lets you view a web page in both IE6 and IE7 or 8, whichever you have installed on your machine.

Get SuperPreview here.

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I say good on them. I guess they had to after IE6 users were getting all sorts of messages from Google on YouTube telling them that their browser wouldn’t be supported after a certain date for watching videos.

Here’s what the upgrade info page looks like.

And here’s Microsoft’s top 8 list of reasons to upgrade, presented here in reverse order:

8. Browse with more confidence. (security updates)
7. Make it yours. (customization)
6. Find what you want in fewer clicks. (accelerators)
5. Recover from crashes quickly. (tab isolation)
4. Browse more privately. (private browsing mode)
3. Avoid phishing scams and malware. (SmartScreen Filter)
2. Use a browser that respects your privacy. (separate address and search boxes)
1. Keep the web familiar. (use us because we’re us)

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Granted, the percentage for Chrome is nowhere near Internet Explorer, but I still think this is important.

The most important lesson is: You should code your websites to HTML standards as opposed to targeting a single browser’s quirks (like IE 6.0).

It’s a mistake to dismiss Google Chrome because it doesn’t have a lot of market share at the moment. Firefox likewise didn’t have a lot of market share, but it’s at about 25% right now. Who in their right mind would turn away 1 out of 4 of their customers?

But I think Google can increase its market share much more rapidly. For one thing, they can promote Chrome on their websites, like they’re doing on Youtube now. The number one video site on the Internet telling people to download Chrome gives it instant credibility.

In addition, Google can promote Chrome outside the digital sphere, as they are doing on the busses of certain cities currently. If Google can make google a household word, Chrome’s not too far behind.

Resources

Download Google Chrome here.
Slashdot discussion
Browser survey
ComputerWorld article

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But when I happened to view the same post in Internet Explorer, I observed the image was resized to be smaller, specifically 490px.

The image tag looks something like:

<img style=”max-width: 800px;” src=”http://www.digitivity.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/windows-desktop-image-change-1.png” alt=”" /
>

Strangely, according to a few Google searches, Firefox supports the max-width property and IE doesn’t. Then again, the full sized image isn’t even 800 pixels, so it shouldn’t need to be resized. It must be something else that is making IE feel the need to resize the image.

As well, the downsized image doesn’t look so good in IE:

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