How does your website look on other browsers?

Posted last year, mid-April by Dave.
Categories: Web Developement, Web Design.
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Ever wondered how you website looks on other browsers, versions and platforms? Generally it is very hard to know how your design will act. If you are designing on a windows platform, you are limited to the browsers you can test in. But there is a website out there to help you get around browser and platform problems, Browser Shots

Browser Shots is a browser screen shot application, you enter your URL select which browsers you would like returned and set browser settings (javascript enabled, flash enabled, etc) and select the maxium wait time and off it goes. It will place your website in a queue. It will give you a URL to view that screen shots as they come back.

Below is a screen shot that was returned by Browser Shots. (Took about 10 minutes to return it)

Konqueror 3.5.5 on Linux

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Gavin IRELAND

Comment on April 18th, 2007 .

Nice wee tool there.

As you know its very important that a site be checked for browser compatibility. I have ran into problems in the past with my sites looking broken on different browsers.

Dave IRELAND

Comment on April 18th, 2007 .

Well that only tests visually, to fully test a website you really need to be sitting at the computer with the browser you want to test.

Gavin IRELAND

Comment on April 18th, 2007 .

Totally agree Dave.

Just running the tool now but still waiting :-(

Dave IRELAND

Comment on April 18th, 2007 .

You are better doing it at night, less people using it. But it will still take a bit.

Jan SLOVAKIA

Comment on September 6th, 2007 .

Hm, I still prefer using 2 operating systems instead of sending urls to the queue. I turn on my laptop where I have Win OS, so that I can see everything.

In addition, the biggest advantage of using 2 PCs (or 2 systems on 1 PC) is that you can fix possible troubles without sending anything for another queue which may take few minutes to process.

Dave IRELAND

Comment on September 6th, 2007 .

Thats very true, and one thing I have found with it is when it is under high traffic you could be waiting a long time. A better idea then using 2 computers is have one with Virtual PC. Microsoft have made it free and you can download a lot of the vhd files as well. :)

mlankton UNITED STATES

Comment on September 17th, 2007 .

I use Camino, Firefox, Safari, Omniweb and Opera at home on my mac to check my site, and at work, Firefox and IE on a pc.
The only oddities I seem to get are the mac version of Firefox sometimes stumbling on ads.

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