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I am designing a web page for my personal use. I want to make it so that it is easily viewable in several web browsers (e.g. IE 8, Firefox 3.6.x). I know there are sites like BrowserShots, but I want an offline program so that I can actually test the site (e.g. interact with links) and not just view screenshots.
2011-06-08 04:43:00
I have heard of a triple-engine browser called Lunascape, which can display web pages using 3 rendering engines, Trident for IE, Gecko for Firefox and WebKit for Chrome and Safari. It is lightweight and it's easy to switch between engines.Sachin
2011-06-02 07:13:00
Check Your Website Design In Different Browsers With Adobe BrowserLabPreview a Web Page in Multiple Browsers with BrowserShotsViewLike.us: Test Website In Different Resolutions
2011-06-02 22:47:00
I'm familiar with Browserlab and BrowserShots but to my knowledge those are web pages and I would prefer to have an actual application which can be loaded from my computer like IETester. I didn't know about ViewLike.us, so I'll try that site.
2011-06-07 13:41:00
Hi Maggie,Sorry for delayed reply. I wish I could help you here witha desktop tool but unfortunately I don't know any, not even commercial ones.You may also check out a couple of commercial tools listed in the following articlehttp://vandelaydesign.com/blog/design/effectively-testing-your-website-in-multiple-browsers/Let us know which one works best for you.Aibek
2011-06-02 03:16:00
Adobe BrowserLab: https://browserlab.adobe.com/en-us/index.htmlBrowsershots: http://browsershots.org/
2011-06-01 18:49:00
I use IETester and a Fedora VirtualMachine with Firefox 2-4 side-by-side installed. I also use Chrome stable and Chromium bleeding-edge (every couple weeks I download a build from the repo and update manually)That should cover your bases pretty well. Firefox on Linux is easy to set up.
2011-06-02 22:46:00
This seems closest to what I want. The problem with sites like Browsershots is that you can't actually interact with the web page; you can only look at how it shows up in a browser. Which virtualization software do you use? I'm familiar with VirtualBox.
2011-06-03 02:44:00
That's what I use. I have it setup in Fedora (10 or 11 I think). Ubuntu may be easie, I can probably just zip and upload the files