Safari web screenshotter -- any for IE? (8)

1 Name: Albright!LC/IWhc3yc : 2006-03-11 18:26 ID:uy3wt8WL

This is nifty for you web developers stuck on Windows. You can enter a URL and see how your site will appear when viewed on Safari, the Mac's most popular browser.
http://www.snugtech.com/safaritest/

(Those of you on Linux should just be able to use Konqueror and see a similar result.)

So on the other side of the coin... anyone know of a site that does something similar with Internet Explorer for us Mac users? Currently, any time I want to check how IE is going to mangle one of my layouts, I have to bug someone on IRC or in my IM buddy list to take a screenshot for me.

2 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2006-03-12 02:20 ID:/OixK8Yk

This is a nice tool, although it's not really new.

There are some commercial services that have huge-ass collections of platforms running recent and legacy browsers, like browsercam.com

I prefer doing all the tests myself, though. It is fairly safe to develop to the specs, test in safari, firefox, or opera then see where it breaks in legacy browsers, to fix it at least in MSIE. I have about ~30 different browsers on OS X, Win32 and Linux, but it's more about pure nerdery than rigorous testing.

> Those of you on Linux should just be able to use Konqueror and see a similar result.

No, definitely not! KHTML and Webcore are very different by now.

> Currently, any time I want to check how IE is going to mangle one of my layouts, I have to bug someone on IRC or in my IM buddy list to take a screenshot for me.

If you have a high tolerance for pain, just make it IE Mac compatible!

3 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2006-03-12 02:36 ID:cDw8i4Kw

> just make it IE Mac compatible!

except for the fact that the mac and windows versions of IE use completely different rendering engines... png transparency has worked since the dark ages in mac IE, but still doesn't work in windows IE...

4 Name: Albright!LC/IWhc3yc : 2006-03-12 03:04 ID:uy3wt8WL

As >>3 said, Mac IE's rendering engine is different (and far more capable) than the current Windows version, despite the fact that it hasn't been updated in five years or so and has been dropped by MS.

>I prefer doing all the tests myself, though. [...] I have about ~30 different browsers on OS X, Win32 and Linux, but it's more about pure nerdery than rigorous testing.

I would prefer to do the testing myself too, but obviously I only have access to my Mac.

http://browsercam.com looks awesome, but their prices are ludicrous.

5 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2006-03-12 11:29 ID:IM8mdN5T

I was not really serious about that IE Mac thing (but in my experience, it is 10 times worse tham it's windows counterpart).

Anyway, I think I found what you want: http://browsershots.org/
It has MSIE6.0 but no other version
However, I made a test, and the queue is of about 1 hour :(
It is beta so unless it is one of those infinite beta services it may get better soon.

6 Name: Albright!LC/IWhc3yc : 2006-03-12 12:25 ID:uy3wt8WL

>>5: Awesome, thanks. I went into the "Options" doodad and only selected IE, and it gave me a wait time of three minutes. Still kinda lame, but I can work with that.

7 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2006-03-14 09:43 ID:duNIExKx

> it is 10 times worse tham it's windows counterpart

hahaha oh wow

Does it get malware even from news.google.com?

8 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2006-03-14 12:39 ID:Heaven

>>7
It was from a web developer perspective, not from the user perspective.

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