Best method for testing site on multiple browsers?
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- Mr. S
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With a new website just out the door I was wondering if there is a best method for checking the site on multiple browsers without having to open it in every 'individual' browser.
I typically use Firefox so I have access to opening in n IE tab as well (though I know not what version of IE it is using) - anyone know if the same tab thing is available for Opera, and other versions of IE?
What do you do?
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- James Spencer
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There is
browsershots.org/
Its just easier to have each browser or at least the main. I have IE6, IE7, FF, Opera and Safari. - James Spencer / Developer & Support / Hull, UK
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- James Spencer
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- See www.rockettheme.com/forum/index.php?t=11121&rb_v=viewtopic
- James Spencer / Developer & Support / Hull, UK
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If something like this exists I would really LOVE to get my hands on a Bootable Live CD or USB Disk in the same format or as a U3 with ALL browsers for the last couple of years.
For those of you that have tried to use a bootable Linux og Windows distribution - Could you perhaps give me a tip if this already exists?
This would be a great thing to complete my browser testing kit without having all the different browsers installed on my PC!!
At the moment I try to validate all my customers websites (Both Xhtml and CSS) at validator.w3.org and also use several seperate U3 configured browsers and live distributions, but as mentioned above - I would reallly love to be able to test the webpages without all the reboots
Regards,
Trond
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- Mack
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- I'm glad I don't have clients. My websites are all mine and I decided to quit doing the hockey-pokey any more. If it passes validator.w3.org then I'm finished. If it doesn't look right or act right in IE, I don't give a flying fig any more. One day I just got so mad I quit wasting time catering to a POS browser.
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I'm with you on this. I use FF, could care less anywhere else.
Mozilla, Safari, Opera, Netscape, and IE 5.5 (lmao) are used by very few people, it's not worth it.
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- Joe K
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That validation thing threw up on my site. Looking at the errors.....er all 12 zillion of them, most are from the template itself. Would love to have a site that checks out but that looks like a tall order.
I am going to do what it says though.
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- Mr. S
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OK, so I ran my site through that validator site & it just says 50 errors.
What does this mean? How do I make use of this? I have so limited knowledge of coding that I'm not sure that any of this is any help to me.
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- Dan L
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I have to spread the testing over 2 PCs, one is running XP Pro with IE6, the other is running Vista with IE7, and both have:
Firefox
Safari
Opera
Installed.
Cross browser stuff is not such a big deal to me these days, I've found that (when building my own templates and sites at least) if you take the time to code carefully and test stuff as you go along, you don't even need IE6/7 specific CSS files, or if you do, it only needs a line or two of text.
I'm all out for cross-browser compat, I think it's very important when dealing with paying client's sites...although I can only test on what I have...for example, people running other browsers on Mac or Linux, I think that's taking things a little too far...one can only do so much
so I ran my site through that validator site & it just says 50 errors.
Ouch
All errors will give you the exact place where they occur, relative to the output source (in your browser, go View->Source to see what the validator sees) - it's usually pretty easy to erradicate most of the errors...with a handful of tricky ones
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