PDZ

Hey, I was wondering if any of you have stumbled on a website that has a feature where their computers take screenshots of websites and show you it with different screen resolutions and maybe even different types of browsers. Yea I know what you are thinking right now, stop being lazy and change my screen res on my computer etc etc, but I was just curious if someone has seen a website like this. If so let me know. Thanks!

John D

I havent seen it but thats a great idea for a site...I was hoping you were posting a link to one when I read this, I would use it a lot myself

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PDZ

Haha I guess a site like this doesnt exist. Maybe it can be a future project of mine haha.

John D

I know I would be very interested if you did develop something that did it, I always have this problem with my sites but I don't design them myself.

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Morphine

A former co-worker of mine introduced me to a site that did this that I liked quite a bit not so long ago while we worked on a project that yet hasn't been uncovered for the public eye. I'll ask him for the link (clumsy me didn't label the bookmark properly) later today.

Edit: http://browsershots.org/ (found it anyway ^_^)

There's plenty of sites like this around, some are free, some aren't. Usually the ones that aren't free gives you more options (resolution for example).

In my life of experience I'd say that nothing beats a good friendship network of computer users on various *nix distros, Mac OSX users and of course Windows users. Depending on which kind you are, download as many browser versions you can (including stand-alone copies of older versions if you suspect people of using it). I'm in Windows, and nowadays there are about 5 billion browser versions out there. Luckily, most of them run on the same engine (or modified copies of them) and generally handle things the same. I run anything I code (client-side that is) through a stress test (stretching and bending the site, flooding AND drying out the content areas, resizing the font, etc.) with the following browsers: Opera (the latest copy, Opera users tend to be quick with the updates), Mozilla Firefox (Mozilla works just as well though), Microsoft Internet Explorer (including stand-alone copies of older versions).

When my codes pass through these tests, I usually just get a few random errors reported through my testers on other OS's which I can fix quickly.

Eminem

Great!

I will give it a shot now!

Thanks for sharing.

NZB

That's a very interesting site. Thanks for the heads up. It could be useful in future layout codes!

Morphine

We also have this, I haven't tested it though.

John D

Thanks very much

Going to give these a go later, have to test 4 designs so this will be great!

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