Friday, August 20, 2010

Easiest way to test web page through multiple browsers?

Is there an online tool that will show how your web site will display through multiple browsers?Easiest way to test web page through multiple browsers?
Yes, I use BrowserLab from adobe to test compatiblity. You'd need an adobe account though to login, but it's free.





http://browserlab.adobe.comEasiest way to test web page through multiple browsers?
The importance of checking our web pages with multiple browsers, especially when we are designing a new layout for a website. This is the case even if we are writing validated standards-compliant code. The number of extant browsers we need to check with are enormous: Internet Explorer (IE) 7, 6, 5.5 and 5.0, Firefox 2.0 and 1.5, Opera 9 and 8, and so on. And then there are the different platforms: Windows, Macintosh (Mac), Linux, etc. irefox, Seamonkey, the Mozilla Suite and Netscape


It's possible for different versions of Firefox, Seamonkey, Netscape and the old Mozilla browser to all co-exist on the same machine.





If you did not already know, Mozilla Firefox, Seamonkey, Netscape 6 to 9 and the (old) Mozilla Suite browser use the same Gecko rendering engine. As such, if you have Netscape 6.X, you are in effect using the rendering engine of a beta version of Mozilla (one of the 0.9.X series); if you use Netscape 7, you are using the Mozilla 1.0.X engine; and if you use Netscape 7.1 you're using the same engine as Mozilla 1.4. The point is that you don't have to install, say, Mozilla 1.0.X if you're using Netscape 7, and so on.





It is easy to make these versions of Firefox/Mozilla/Netscape co-exist with each other. Install them into separate directories and create a different profile for each browser you install. (For non-Firefox/Netscape/Mozilla users, this browser allows you to create different profiles so that you can store different settings for different situations.)
Try http://browsershots.org/

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