Actually pretty amazing collection of stuff to help with cross-browser testing. Includes VirtualBox VMs for IE6+

Utilu IE Collection

“Utilu IE Collection contains multiple standalone versions of the browser Internet Explorer, which can be used at the same time.”

Windows/IE VirtualBox/VPC images

http://www.microsoft.com/Downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=21eabb90-958f-4b64-b5f1-73d0a413c8ef&displaylang=en

Windows/IE VirtualBox/VPC images

Images provided by MS for testing compatibility with IE8 etc. Includes XP and Vista currently, with IE6-8. Compatible with VirtualBox with some tinkering.

IETester

http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage

IETester

“IETester is a free WebBrowser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8 beta 2, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process.”

An Open Letter to IE6 for 2009

Dear Internet Explorer 6,

How are you feeling? How was your New Years? Probably a bit lonely I expect, what with people deserting you left and right for your ritzy sibling, IE7, or some of the even more attractive kids on the block like Firefox, Safari and Opera. I know we’ve spent a lot of time together, you and I, but it’s time that I told you something that’s been on my mind for a while.

I don’t think we should see each other any more.

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Using CSS to Fix Anything: 20+ Common Bugs and Fixes

http://www.noupe.com/css/using-css-to-fix-anything-20-common-bugs-and-fixes.html

Using CSS to Fix Anything: 20+ Common Bugs and Fixes

Great collection of CSS fixes for all sorts of layout/browser issues.

Making Internet Explorer Behave Like a Real Browser

Recently I’ve been doing a lot of cross-browser work (IE 6 + 7, FF and Safari required to function similarly, unfortunately), and I’ve narrowed down my list of hacks/tricks to make Internet Explorer be able to actually render standards-compliant HTML in a manner remotely befitting a modern browser. Here are my list of “go-to” hacks which seem to fix at least 90% of rendering, layout and positioning issues in IE(6|7).

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