Testing your web pages in different browsers at Apramana

We all know the importance of checking our web pages with multiple browsers, especially when we are designing a new layout for a website.The number of extant browsers we need to check with are enormous: Internet Explorer (IE) 7, 6, 5.5 and 5.0, Firefox 3.0, Firefox 2.0 and 1.5, Opera 9 and 8, and so on. And then there are the different platforms: Windows, Macintosh (Mac), Linux, etc. And even the on the mobile devices there are different type of browsers and versions. The problem for most people is that multiple versions of certain browsers cannot co-exist with each other, the most notable example of this is IE for Windows. Unless you are privileged to have multiple computers, this presents a certain difficulty for the average webmaster.

So here I’m listing some useful browser simulators and multiple browser installations.

If I have missed out anything in this list, please add it as a comment.

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6 Responses to “Testing your web pages in different browsers”

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1 Dilantha Aug 20th, 2007 at 11:08 pm

Check out IEs4Linux if your on Linux.
2 Chamara Aug 20th, 2007 at 11:13 pm

@Dilantha
Thanks for the tip
3 SRIshanu Aug 20th, 2007 at 11:16 pm

Thanks for the useful info.

Some add-on to the browser list. It’s Apple Safari. Version 3 onwards, they are launching a Windows version too, and v3-beta for win is already exist.

This will definitely be among major web browsers, may be above Opera and IE. Who knows… As far as I figured out, v3-beta (Win) is faster than all others, but still have so many bugs.
4 Chamara Aug 20th, 2007 at 11:29 pm

@SRIshanu
No doubt, Safari is the best browser, but Safari 3.0 Windows version is not yet stable and it’s slow comparatively to FF and IE in Windows. And have found couple of security vulnerabilities in Safari 3 Windows.

But in Mac OS it’s perfect and it’s the best
5 Donald Gaminitillake Aug 21st, 2007 at 1:24 am

Please post some screen shot using the Sinhala same web page on different browsers

Donald
6 Chamara Aug 21st, 2007 at 1:30 am

@Donald
This post is not about screen shots.

So by using these browser emulators you test your web site’s browser compatibility.