{"id":982,"date":"2009-05-04T04:59:31","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T08:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/?p=982"},"modified":"2009-05-03T19:10:54","modified_gmt":"2009-05-03T23:10:54","slug":"ie-8-upgrade-its-a-one-way-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2009\/05\/04\/ie-8-upgrade-its-a-one-way-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"IE 8 Upgrade It&#8217;s a One Way Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have Vista like I do, you may want to know that upgrading your browser to IE 8 is a one way trip. You cannot uninstall it and go back to IE 7. I found this out the hard way.<\/p>\n<p>I have really liked IE 7. I like the clean polished interface. When I clicked install IE 8 just the other day when I received other Windows updates, I did not realize the ramifications for doing so. As I am designing a new client site, and not many people have IE 8 right now, I need to be able to test my site on the mainstream popular browsers. After a few days with IE 8, I decided I wanted to go back to IE 7.<\/p>\n<p>You cannot uninstall the program nor re-install IE 7 over it. In fact if you try as I did, you will receive a message that IE 7 is not compatible with your system. So if you need access to IE 7 here&#8217;s a super work around that I have found <a title=\"Test many versions of IE while you have IE 8 installed.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.my-debugbar.com\/wiki\/IETester\/HomePage\" target=\"_blank\">IE Tester<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I downloaded the application and wow, what a great tool. I can view my site URL in IE 5, 6, 7, and even 8. What a life saver.<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s my tip, if you are a regular web surfer, get IE 8 as it is more secure, &#8212; sure looks a lot like Firefox. If you are a web designer, be careful about installing IE 8. Now that you know it is a one way trip, make a careful decision. If you do upgrade, make sure to download <a href=\"http:\/\/www.my-debugbar.com\/wiki\/IETester\/HomePage\" target=\"_blank\">IE Tester<\/a> it is an excellent tool and allows for your testing on multiple Internet Explorer versions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have Vista like I do, you may want to know that upgrading your browser to IE 8 is a one way trip. You cannot uninstall it and go back to IE 7. I found this out the hard way. I have really liked IE 7. I like the clean polished interface. When I clicked install IE 8 just the other day when I received other Windows updates, I did not realize the ramifications for doing so. As I am designing a new client site, and not many people have IE 8 right now, I need to be able to test my site on the mainstream popular browsers. After a few days with IE 8, I decided I wanted to go back to IE 7. You cannot uninstall the program nor re-install IE 7 over it. In fact if you try as I did, you will receive a message that IE 7 is not compatible with your system. So if you need access to IE 7 here&#8217;s a super work around that I have found IE Tester. I downloaded the application and wow, what a great tool. I can view my site URL in IE 5, 6, 7, and even 8. What a life saver. So here&#8217;s my tip, if you are a regular web surfer, get IE 8 as it is more secure, &#8212; sure looks a lot like Firefox. If you are a web designer, be careful about installing IE 8. Now that you know it is a one way trip, make a careful decision. If you do upgrade, make sure to download IE Tester it is an excellent tool and allows for your testing on multiple Internet Explorer versions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[357],"tags":[435],"class_list":["post-982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-trends","tag-web-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":983,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions\/983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}