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no9t9
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Check Website on different browsers

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Is there a way to check your website usability for different browsers without actually installing all the browsers on your machine? Also, what about checking your website with a MAC? How can I do that without going to buy a mac? Also, checking with previous versions of internet explorer? how to do this?
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Validator

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Hi,

W3C has a validator that can check compliance with standards.
Many browsers support these and this would be a safe bet,
if you needed a web page to display in most browsers.

:arrow: Go to http://validator.w3.org/ for more info.
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Re: Validator

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AnarKy wrote:Hi,

W3C has a validator that can check compliance with standards.
Many browsers support these and this would be a safe bet,
if you needed a web page to display in most browsers.

:arrow: Go to http://validator.w3.org/ for more info.
thanks, i will check it out. right now, I am checking my site using firefox and i am hoping that most of the other browsers will work well enough. i dont need my site to look exactly the same across browsers, just useable.
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Post by m3mn0n »

Using the latest version of Firefox, the most up to date IE, and the W3C Validator is the best method for checking if your site is standards compliant. Well, from my experience anyway.
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Post by davidjwest »

http://www.browsercam.com/

Try that, it will take an image of any site using various browser/OS and screen resolutions for you to look at. It was free last time I used it.

Don't forget that a lot of people still use 800x600 resolution, I mistakingly thought this was now obsolete and designed my site for higher resolution and it looked rubbish in 800x600.
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I find about 2-5% my traffic is on 800x600
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Post by m3mn0n »

Windows XP defaults to 800x600 so that is most likely why a lot of traffic still uses it. It's also why I think all the major sites still design their sites for that resolution.

Maybe with Longhorn it will default to 1024x768. Hopefully Microsoft does that. :)
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Post by neophyte »

I had a similar problem recently. I validated my html and it still won't display properly on IE on the mac with version 5.2 or earlier. Fortunatly for me IE isn't being made for Macs anymore. But my webpage looks horrible on macs in IE. Honestly how many times a day do you curse the exsistance of IE? ---Million? :wink:
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One day in the near futur I hope aliens probe microsoft arse and convince them that IE sucks ass !

S'cuse the language of course :P
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:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

Right with you Phenom!
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Post by kettle_drum »

http://www.danvine.com/icapture/ is pretty good if you dont have a mac.
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Post by neophyte »

Looks like that one tests for safari. Safari is vary similar to Konqueror.
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Post by Berethorn »

Without being able to diss IE, we'd feel like something was missing inside...

OH WELL! :p
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Post by kral_majales »

make sure you have lots of hair before you start trying to make a site cross-browser compatiable, but be advised that you will have torn most of it out before you have finished ! :lol:

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