I have been curious about better ways to cross browser test than those screenshot services or maintaining my own array of VMs to VNC into. Then today I found crossbrowsertesting.com (which seems to allow you to connect from your browser via VNC to one of their machines running virtually any browser). This is really similar to a solution I had been thinking about, but veered away for a few reasons. I have two questions about this service:
- if you have used the service, what are its pros/cons?
- how do they get around people doing all kinds of nasty things on their VMs, since they give you a full desktop to play around in.
Bonus: how do they get around the legal issues regarding people VNC'ing into Windows and using IE when the connecting clients clearly do not own the software?