Well no more! Now you can download and run standalone versions of IE 3, IE4, IE4.01, IE 5.01, IE.5.5 and now even IE 6 (for those who have already installed IE 7 beta over their IE 6)

Find them on Evolt.org’s Browser Archive. While its not all that necessary to download IE 3 – 4 I strongly recommend you ensure your sites work correctly on IE 5, 6 and 7.

Another tool I use frequently is browsercam. You can sign up for a 24 hour free trial and test your site across multiple platforms too.

Generating Dynamic CSS with PHP
One of the things I’ve done with the new yummy wakame (I know I know, it will be launched eventually!) is used PHP in my main stylesheet. This is because each section has identical styles, but a different colourscheme. So at the top of each page (in a section server side include) I declare new values for the colour variables that page will use, and the stylesheet looks for these values when it’s loaded, filling in the colours where Ive put placeholders. This way I can avoid creating separate stylesheets for each section, keeping the site size down to a minimum, and eliminating the need to make changes across a whole bunch of stylesheets every time I make a small change.

Anyway, I found this article today which explains how it’s done. I wish I’d found it before when I originally got the idea months back. This one does it in a different way though… but it works just as well.