As many of us are, I'm super frustrated that IE 6 is still around and ruining my day on a regular basis. That ancient MS POS needs to die, as many of you know and are working towards that goal (http://www.dopefly.com/techblog/entry.cfm?entry=298)

In the meantime, those of us who live in the real world and have to make end users who are stuck with it as their full time browser, happy our ives have gotten just a little bit easier thanks to Adobe new toy, BrowserLab.

Browser lab is exactly that, a hosted browser testing lab that allows you to cross compare your website in a number of different common browsers. Sadly, in this beta it's a pretty short list, but it does include FireFox 3 (rendered by either Windows XP or OS X) IE 6 and 7 (Windows XP) and Safari (OS X).

Not the most robust list I could hope for, but hey, it;s in Beta and it's currently FREE! I like free.

This totally saved my tail this weekend as I had to fix an IE 6 issue in a mess of a CSS/Table hybrid/frankenstein site and I no longer have a copy of IE 6 installed anywhere on any of the 7 computers I have at home... Yeah, I only have 7 computers now...

Once again, thank you Adobe!

https://browserlab.adobe.com

UPDATE:

One of my co-workers (Derek) found this gem on Microsoft's website. It's a virtual machine you can run that creates a WinXP SP3 instance with a real copy of IE 6 installed on it!

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=21EABB90-958F-4B64-B5F1-73D0A413C8EF&displaylang=en

Thanks Derek!