choose which browser to default to

[pinbrook]

it would be nice to be able to choose which browser you use to test within.

DW does this, you tell it a primary and secondary browser. Due to IE being a pain. I would like to use IE as my default browser for actinic dev work, whilst retaining FF as my day to day workhorse browser.

[PaulGrimshaw]

Jo, If you mean the render inside the design view I don't think its possible as they probably use the internal windows code directly. If I am wrong then I would also love this as I like to test in IE6/7,FF & OP and having them all open at a time is a pain. If you could change the view on the fly it would be great .

Thanks,
Paul.

[pinbrook]

Jan

not again....please

[Darren B]

I thought people were getting the hang of this Jan / Jo thing - mind you we have not had the pleasure of meeting you both so are you one and the same?

Darren

[pinbrook]

If you mean the render inside the design view

I mean when you do a local preview, within actinic is based on IE. If I want to view in different browsers to check compatibility I have to cut and paste urls into different browsers. I've now got IE6 and 7 on diiferent PCs so I have ot upload to test webspace to check IE7. It all gts very confusing and time consuming.

so are you one and the same?

there's defo 2 of us. The annoying thing also is we both offer mutually exclusive services, I do hosting and design, Jan does software and paper. The only commonality is the "J"

[wjcampbe]

we have not had the pleasure of meeting you both

Myself and the other attendees at the first v8 teach-in did have the pleasure of meeting both Jan and Jo, and can confirm they are distinctly seperate, but both very talented and capable, people.

[PaulGrimshaw]

Jo,

I agree - it would be very useful to have this feature.

I've now got IE6 and 7 on diiferent PCs so I have ot upload to test webspace to check IE7.

did you know you can get a copy of IE 6 stand alone? If not, then you can download IE6 from brower archive. I have IE 6 & 7 running fine together on the same PC.

Thanks,
Paul.

[pinbrook]

did you know you can get a copy of IE 6 stand alone?

Bill posted info re that, I'm one of those people who prefer to let others experiment with such stuff before installing it myself. I like to keep my laptop (which is my main working machine) as stable as poss.

I suspect I will need to have both 6 and 7 on my laptop, but at the mo its just got 6. I'll put 7 on when its abit more usable. But thanks for the reminder.

[cdicken]

Thanks for the suggestion Jo

Have you looked at the 'IE Tab' plug-in for Firefox? I use this to preview in IE without having to launch IE7 - which takes AGES