Hi All, I'm wondering how you all test your sites in various browsers?
I guess the most common way is web screenshots but I find it slow and
cumbersome so I was wondering if anyone knows of a program that can
open a page in the most common browsers in tabs across the top so you
can really experience your design in each one?
Cheers,
Ciar=E1n
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Ciaran
> Hi All, I'm wondering how you all test your sites in various browsers?
> I guess the most common way is web screenshots but I find it slow and
> cumbersome so I was wondering if anyone knows of a program that can
> open a page in the most common browsers in tabs across the top so you
> can really experience your design in each one?
> Cheers,
> Ciarán
In general, there is nothing. Most of us just open pages in
different browsers and have a look. Bit of a bore, true.
In Firefox for Windows, there is a facility you can get to see
how things look in Internet Explorer for Windows. AFAIK.
--
dorayme
Ciaran schreef:
> Hi All, I'm wondering how you all test your sites in various browsers?
> I guess the most common way is web screenshots but I find it slow and
> cumbersome so I was wondering if anyone knows of a program that can
> open a page in the most common browsers in tabs across the top so you
> can really experience your design in each one?
> Cheers,
> Ciarán
>
Not a program but a website:
http://browsershots.org/
RW
> In Firefox for Windows, there is a facility you can get to see
> how things look in Internet Explorer for Windows. AFAIK.
>
Yeah, this is what I mean - Wouldn't it be great to have one program
that could test your page in each browser at the same time? You could
download new browsers and keep track of updates in each version of
each browser. It can't be that complicated - I can't imagine a browser
is a hugely complicated thing to code. I guess the creator would have
to pay for permission to use most browsers' source coding.
On 2007-06-26, Ciaran
>
>> In Firefox for Windows, there is a facility you can get to see
>> how things look in Internet Explorer for Windows. AFAIK.
>>
>
> Yeah, this is what I mean - Wouldn't it be great to have one program
> that could test your page in each browser at the same time?
Why not just a script something like:
firefox $1 &
opera $1 &
konqueror $1 &
And/or attach it to a program like urlview or Python's webbrowser
module.
> You could download new browsers and keep track of updates in each
> version of each browser. It can't be that complicated - I can't
> imagine a browser is a hugely complicated thing to code.
They are quite complicated.
> I guess the creator would have to pay for permission to use most
> browsers' source coding.
MS don't release their source code except to people like the Chinese
government.
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<1182864456.149896.248670@q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>,
Ciaran
> > In Firefox for Windows, there is a facility you can get to see
> > how things look in Internet Explorer for Windows. AFAIK.
> >
>
> Yeah, this is what I mean - Wouldn't it be great to have one program
> that could test your page in each browser at the same time? You could
> download new browsers and keep track of updates in each version of
> each browser. It can't be that complicated - I can't imagine a browser
> is a hugely complicated thing to code. I guess the creator would have
> to pay for permission to use most browsers' source coding.
Do you realise _how_ great that would be for us on Macs?
--
dorayme
Rob Waaijenberg wrote:
>
> http://browsershots.org/
Note that services such as this have limited use. They cannot test such
things as how the design responds to variations in window or text size,
scripting, events like :hover, etc.
It's OK as a rough idea, but I wouldn't fool myself into believing it's
all the testing that's needed.
--
Berg
Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Ciaran
writing in news:1182856312.339877.188800@m36g2000hse.googlegroups.com:
> Hi All, I'm wondering how you all test your sites in various browsers?
> I guess the most common way is web screenshots but I find it slow and
> cumbersome so I was wondering if anyone knows of a program that can
> open a page in the most common browsers in tabs across the top so you
> can really experience your design in each one?
> Cheers,
> Ciarán
>
There's a little program called MTBrowser. What it does is open a URL in
various browsers. Instead of having to open each one individually and
copying the pasting the URL, you put it in once, and the program opens them
all up
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Adrienne Boswell at Home
Arbpen Web Site Design Services
http://www.cavalcade-of-coding.info
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Bergamot schreef:
> Rob Waaijenberg wrote:
>> http://browsershots.org/
>
> Note that services such as this have limited use. They cannot test such
> things as how the design responds to variations in window or text size,
> scripting, events like :hover, etc.
>
> It's OK as a rough idea, but I wouldn't fool myself into believing it's
> all the testing that's needed.
>
I agree,
just wanted to point out a 'tool'.
Rob