Spend a morning with Internet Explorer 5

March 2nd, 2010

If you are one of those people who love to complain about old browsers, it’s important to remember just how far browsers have come.

Tomorrow morning I'm going to do just that by setting my default browser to Internet Explorer 5 Mac.

Got a Mac? Download IE5 Mac and do the same. (If you use that other operating system, install MultipleIE and use IE5 for Windows.)

Stuff and Nonsense on IE5Mac

For A Beautiful Web on IE5Mac

Hardboiled Web Design on IE5Mac

Take screenshots of the sites you visit and upload them to the IE5 Mac Flickr group. How long will you stand it? My money is on less than an hour.

After spending any time with IE5, I bet you’ll feel a whole lot better and more confident about explaining that web sites don’t and can’t look the same in every browser.

Written by Andy Clarke

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