I am working in creating a website and i want to check in multiple browsers for compability test without manually opening each browser and check the website. Do you guys know if there is any software where i can just give a link and it loads the page in multiple browsers?
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You're looking for litmus, from the people who brought you doctype, part of the League of Justice. 14-day passes to test your layouts in 24 browsers currently cost $39.
Dominic Rodger
2010-02-26 15:23:05
Yup. litmus is decent especially for testing email marketing. Remember, you get what you pay for.
Kris Krause
2010-02-26 16:27:21
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If the website is publicly visible then there are web based services that you can use such as http://crossbrowsertesting.com/.
If your website is internal only, then you're going to struggle to find support I think. We tried to find one but all we found were services that require a publicly visible website - no good for testing pre-go-live.
Bernhard Hofmann
2010-02-26 15:23:47
Litmus works with websites that are password-protected, so as long as you can publish your site to somewhere on the internet, it'll work for you.
Dominic Rodger
2010-02-26 15:42:14
@Dominic Yes, that's why I up-voted your answer, it's a good option as well. Unfortunately our production department require a lot of notice and even more forms filled out before any of our code goes near a public facing server because they do a lot for us in terms of security and firewalls.
Bernhard Hofmann
2010-02-26 17:03:41
I imagine someone could make a decent business out of making an "inhouseable" solution to this (i.e. running on a server within your company's firewalls).
Dominic Rodger
2010-02-26 17:06:02
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I've used Browser Shots before and it's ok if you don't mind waiting for an hour or two.
I'd also recommend checking out some of the links on Delicious.
Pat
2010-02-26 15:27:03
Browser Shots appears to be down at present ("No active screenshot factories.")
Dominic Rodger
2010-02-26 16:42:27
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Are you talking about a compatible design or compatible JS? Because AJAX functionality is difficult to test with the usual cross-browser tools.
For the latter, look at httpUnit, though I'm not sure it can simulate multiple browsers.
Jerome Baum
2010-02-26 16:23:53
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There's Microsoft Expression Web SuperPreview, but I haven't tried it so can't comment on if it's good or not.
Their opening quote makes me laugh though, mainly because of how sucky IE6 is:
About 7 years ago, the browser wars were over. Internet Explorer had become the de facto standard, and for a while, there were very few compatibility issues in web page design.
Check it out though, might be worthwhile. Especially if you are a .NET developer, however it might be useful to web developers in general.
jamiebarrow
2010-02-26 16:28:17
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Adobe has BrowserLab. It requires an Adobe account (free) and gives you Firefox 2.0 - 3.5 (WinXP, OSX), IE 6-8 (WinXP), Safari 3-4 (OSX) and Chrome 3.0 (WinXP).
mqchen
2010-02-26 16:51:46