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Cool tool for cross-browser rendering compatibility!

by MarkR
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Webmasters,

I just read about this site in another thread on WF and had to share it with my webmaster brethren. Check it out.

Check Browser Compatibility, Cross Platform Browser Test - Browsershots

No, I'm not affiliated in any way and only played with it for the first time about 30 minutes ago.

Have fun!

Mark
#compatibility #cool #crossbrowser #rendering #tool
  • Profile picture of the author n7 Studios
    Hi Mark,

    Thanks for sharing this - browsershots is a useful tool for checking cross browser compatibility.

    If, however, you're looking to check more interactive elements e.g. Javascript, Flash (which can have different effects on different browsers!), I've typically gone with having multiple browsers installed on my system, such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Google Chrome et al.

    For checking your web site across multiple Internet Explorer versions, you've got two other options:
    - MultipleIE's - which goes all the way back to IE3 (!), or
    - Microsoft's free "IE App Compat VHD", which are a collection of Virtual PC images with IE6, 7 and 8 (beta) installed (you'll need to install Virtual PC (again, free), and then download the necessary disk image).
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  • Profile picture of the author awesometbn
    I vote for the virtual PC mentioned earlier by n7 Studios. You can download vmware for free, Microsoft Virtual PC for free, Sun Microsystems has virtualbox.org for free, and I'm sure there are others. This is the best scenario because you can do whatever you want in the virtual machine, and if something goes wrong, you avoid destroying your own computer. Just restore from the last saved vmware snapshot. Nothing lost and you are back up and running immediately. This is not only a great solution for developers, but also for classroom and training situations that need a lot of machines reloaded and reconfigured back to normal as quickly as possible.

    Good call. If you're in the habit of downloading .iso files and buring your own CD-ROMs you can also use vmware to directly load the .iso files. That way you can keep a hard drive library of .iso files (huge GB files) and simply point vmware to the one you want to load. These days the external USB drives are pretty cheap, so I think this makes for a great solution without too much extra work.
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  • Profile picture of the author n7 Studios
    Absolutely. Virtual PC's do take extra time to set up - the reason I originally suggested them was because using MultipleIE's with your development web site that contains dodgy / broken Javascript can cause MultipleIE's to crash. Virtual PC's, whilst requiring more resources, are more stable for cross browser (well, IE browser!) compability testing.

    I'd go with Microsoft's Virtual PC, simply because the VHD's they provide for IE testing (6, 7 and 8) are licensed and free to download - no need to have copy, illegal Windows licenses to have multiple virtual machines.

    The drawback is that the Microsoft VHD's are time limited - so every month or two, you have to re-download the file.
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  • Profile picture of the author Hanuka
    oooo thanks m8!!! reallly helpful tool!! xD
    was actually searching for something like this.. but 4got 2 search, lol! ^^

    anyways, thanks
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