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Live Browser Compatibility Testing with Adobe BrowserLab
On my Windows machine I have been working with for the last two years, I have had a program installed that ran all the Internet Explorer browsers on one single machine. I used that to see if my websites were rendering correctly in Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8.
Today I am rocking a Apple MacBook Pro. Works awesome. When I was searching for a good alternative for browser compatibility on the Mac however, I couldn’t find a good program. So, I decided to go with an online tool.
BrowserShots.org and IPinfo’s NetRender wouldn’t help me out here, because it takes a lot of time to reload the screenshots, which made it hard to solve any layout issues. You don’t want to wait 5 minutes between each change, before you can actually see what happens, right?
That’s when I found out about Adobe’s BrowserLab. BrowserLab allows you to view your layout in different browsers fast and accurate. When you made a change to your website, just hit reload and your website is reloaded in a second.The BrowserLab currently let you check these browsers:
- Chrome 3.0 (Windows XP)
- Firefox 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 (Windows XP & Mac OSX)
- Internet Explorer 6.0, 7.0, 8.0 (Windows XP)
- Safari 3.0, 4.0 (Mac OSX)
The only disadvantage is that you need to have an account on Adobe’s website, but registering is free.
So, if you are building websites and have some compatibility problems, please check Adobe’s BrowserLab because it can help you a lot.
I always hate it when spending hours on finding the best color, it afterworths looks different in different programs, especially wehen using bright colors. This is great tool to find the point in the middle.
Thanks Tim, you are absolutely correct.
Nice, I’ll have to try that out.
You might also give VMWare Workstation a try. You can install different operating system images (XP + IE6, Vista + IE7, Win7 + IE8, etc.) and run each in its own window. It works in Linux/KDE, which is nice for LAMP guys.
Thanks, but I have a Mac, so it doesn’t really work out there
I have the problem too of getting to a blog and finding that I figure the conversation is already over hours ago. That’s the downside of putting the hour stamp on your comments by the way.
Very cool. I’ll be using this a lot.
I’m also on a Mac, and my PC notebook that I use for testing websites just died.
I could try loading VM Ware Fusion, but I find it takes too many resources and slows everything way down.
Thanks!
~Jeff
MileHighTechGuy
Thanx. Just the kind of thing i was looking for!
thakns for sharing the unique conm