An awesome tool from microsoft to help deal with the css craziness that is Internet Explorer.

As a web designer, you hate getting the call, the dreaded call from a client telling you that your design "looks weird" on his side.   As a designer you think how can this be possible?  Your web design utilizes css.  You have tested your design against all the major search engines and on different machines and operating systems in your office.  You have even sent it the design off to friends and family to bask in your design awesomeness, but your client is still seeing something "weird" on his end.

So your on the phone with your client and he is not happy, your embarrassed because you still don't know what's going on.  You start the interrogation of the client...

Q: "What page are you looking at?"
A: "I am looking at my contact page."
Your interrogation continues...

Q: "What browser are you using?"
A: "I am not sure, its the one that came with windows 7."
In your head you grown.  Oh no, i hate this damn browser...

Q: "What version are you using, its under the about tab on your browser?"
A: "It just says Internet Explorer 7."
your think to yourself, its only outdated by a couple months.  We are using windows 8 at the moment.  That should be able to handle css correctly, no?  

 The first rule of css is never trust a Microsoft browser to render your page correctly.  I have been building web pages since Al Gore invented the internet and have probably spent 75 percent of my debugging time trying to fix IE specific style sheet problems.  Your page looks great on Fire Fox, Safari, Opera, Chrome, you name it.  The page looks fantastic on every browser but the most used browser in America. 

We used to have to keep multiple pc's around and purposely not update the browser.  We did this solely to have a platform to test prior version of Internet Explorer.  That was until we found Expression Web SuperPreview by the perpetrator of the web crime, Microsoft.  This application will let you see how your page will look on previous versions of IE and we have tested it to be very accurate.   So far it has shown us all sorts of white space problems,  It has done a great job of showing us all sorts of Internet Explorer css inconsistencies.   I am running it on windows 7 and it has performed flawlessly.