Re: Browser Test

FrozenNorth wrote:
oeb wrote:
Rev Turd Fredericks wrote:
Mimic wrote:
oeb wrote:
-=Biscuit=- wrote:
PerfectReign <theperfectreign@xxxxxxxxx> delighted us to no end
by taking a lime green crayon and scribbling in
news:wxn0rrtjpckd$.1me7d9tugz9zl.dlg@xxxxxxxxxx, on the hallowed
day of Mon 24 Apr 2006 02:25:29p:
Just heard about this service - haven't tried it. Thought I'd
give you all a heads up if you want...

http://www.browsercam.com/default.aspx

...it is a bit pricey, but might be worth the trouble for
testing your site in different browsers without having to setup
virtual machines.
I believe Jenn had posted that link a while back (though nothing's
wrong with posting it again). As I remember, they have an initial 24
hour free trial.


Hello Mara, LTNS

There is also http://www.snugtech.com/safaritest/ which will give you
a screenshot of your site in safari for free.


There is also another community based one I found somewhere. You
submit a URL and people submit their screenshots. It took time
though, and I have lost the URL anyway =P


Ian
Ah that one I could do with, Mac testing is a bit of a hassle for me

This is the crazy thing. I went to site the other day with Safari on my
mac and it told me I couldn't access their site without IE. So I fired
up IE and went to the site (there is IE for macs but it's not as good as
Safari) and it worked fine. Today I went back to the site but with
safari spoofing the user agent as IE 6 and the site worked just fine.
Why in the hell would some stupid web designer only design for IE and
actually bar all others from entering? I can understand if they are just
lazy and can't be bothered to design for other browsers, but to actually
bar non-IE users is plain stupid.


Yes, I have seen it happen. I think the best explination for it is that
some people are idiots.

IIRC for a while Microsoft would server a DIFFRENT broken version of
their site to FF users. As in diffrent HTML was served out. (Don't hold
me to this, but I think it was a few years back).

I think its funny that people block the people that are NOT using the
broken browser that makes sites render incorectly.

Actually it was on msnbc, and they handed out a bad css file to users on
non-IE browsers.

Either way its piss poor practice.

Anyone who does not at least check sites in the three (Safari, IE, FF/Mozilla) main contenders out there needs to really rethink their career choice.

It's like building a road that causes Fords, and only Fords to skid off and crash if they try and drive on it.

Internet publishing has evolved a lot in the last few years, with the push twords usefull, effective technoligies like CSS, RSS, Non-obtrusive javascript etc. I think it's wonderful that someone can take all these technoligies that help make the internet a more accessible place and use them to make their site even less accessible.

The end is nigh!

Ian
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