Well, I upgraded to IE7 and boy am I NOT glad that I did. But I needed to see how a project I am working on looked in Internet Explorer 7. Come to find out that it looked great in Firefox and IE6 but not in IE7. So I upgraded to IE7 made some changes to the site and now it looks great in Firefox and IE7 but not in IE6. As you can imagine at this point I was about ready to kill Internet Explorer. Not sure how I would do that but I could wish anyway.

Moral of the story is if you need two versions of Internet Explorer installed on your machine, don’t use MultipleIEs. It is buggy and caused my internet connection to become intermittent. So if you have IE7 installed and want to see how your site renders in IE6, you can use IE NetRenderer. It allows you to check how a website is rendered by Internet Explorer 7, 6, or 5.5, as seen from a high speed datacenter located in Germany. Just type in a URL in the text field, select the Internet Explorer version, and there you have it.

This web rendering tool is ideally suited for web designers working on Apple iMac and Linux workstations. It allows you to verify web designs natively on all popular Internet Explorer versions, without the need to set aside several physical or virtual Microsoft Windows PCs just for that purpose.

Now that’s a great tool to remember!

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The image toolbar in IE6 is a tool that allows the user to save a picture, print a picture, email a picture, or open the “My Pictures” folder. This toolbar was meant to be a useful tool but it can often be an annoyance for the web designer. Here are a couple ways to disable this toolbar.

The first way is to add this line of code in the head section of your page:

<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no">

The second way is specific to each img element. You can add the galleryimg attribute to any img element:

<img src="mypicture.gif" galleryimg="no" />

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