[Ramrod]

Originally Posted by Chris T

A common issue in the poorly-funded world of the corporate intranet, I'm afraid. We took a conscious decision to code for IE only on ours, as there wasn't developer time enough to test for other browsers (and we have a single corporate software standard in any case). As a believer in web standards, it was hard for me to stomach, but sadly I'm an IT user, not a developer, so there was little I could do to influence that side of the development of it.

Talking of developers here is a utility that purports to make testing sites with different browsers easier.......scroll down and look at the 'View in' section

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When developing websites (something I seem to be doing too much of lately!) checking the layout and visual appeal of the site in multiple browsers is a necessary evil. Copying the URL in the IE, firing off a Mozilla or FireFox session and then pasting in the URL is an annoyance when done occasionally. When its done a number of times in quick succession it can become a major pain.

To get around this when using one of the Mozilla based browsers a plugin, IEView, was written to make IE invocations faster and simpler. Unfortunately for me my current work place (at July 2004 anyway) is an IE only shop so the developers and designers are missing the two-click invocation of other browsers. Until now.

Below are four sets of links, each one adds functionality to IE that permits right- click invocation of a different browser. The versions tested while building were: Avant 9.02, FireFox .9, Mozilla 1.6b and Opera 7.51.

View in Avant Executable Zip file with source
View in FireFox Executable Zip file with source
View in Mozilla Executable Zip file with source
View in Opera Executable Zip file with source