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Check Website on different browsers
Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 8:28 am
by no9t9
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?
Validator
Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 9:37 am
by AnarKy
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.

Go to
http://validator.w3.org/ for more info.
Re: Validator
Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 9:38 pm
by no9t9
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.

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.
Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 11:57 pm
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.
Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 1:23 pm
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.
Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 5:06 pm
by John Cartwright
I find about 2-5% my traffic is on 800x600
Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 7:27 pm
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.

Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 8:52 pm
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?

Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 8:59 pm
by John Cartwright
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

Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 9:15 pm
by neophyte
Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 9:17 pm
by kettle_drum
http://www.danvine.com/icapture/ is pretty good if you dont have a mac.
Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 9:24 pm
by neophyte
Looks like that one tests for safari. Safari is vary similar to Konqueror.
Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2004 8:58 pm
by Berethorn
Without being able to diss IE, we'd feel like something was missing inside...
OH WELL! :p
Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2004 3:23 pm
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 !
K