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cmason

Feb-02-2007, 06:58 AM

Found this gem mentioned on a blog today, and think it a great tool for customization work.

OK, what this does, is allow you to enter in any address, say your smugmug site, into a form, and the service, which is FREE, will go and open that page in multiple browsers, on multiple platforms, and provide you with screenshots from each, so you can compare how it looks. Very cool.

http://browsershots.org/

OK, it is a bit slow, my trial took about 26 mins for the results to return. The results are screengrabs that show on the results page. You have to refresh your browser window, or bookmark the page and return to see the results, and they do expire. Here are the results from my test:

This is the results page...in this case, I asked for Safari on OSX, Firefox 1.5 on Linux, and IE 6 and 7 on Windows.

http://digitalmason.smugmug.com/photos/127055964-M.jpg

and clicking on the first thumbnail brings you to this:

http://digitalmason.smugmug.com/photos/127055956-M.jpg

Check it out!

ivar

Feb-02-2007, 07:01 AM

Found this gem mentioned on a blog today, and think it a great tool for customization work.

OK, what this does, is allow you to enter in any address, say your smugmug site, into a form, and the service, which is FREE, will go and open that page in multiple browsers, on multiple platforms, and provide you with screenshots from each, so you can compare how it looks. Very cool.

http://browsershots.org/

OK, it is a bit slow, my trial took about 26 mins for the results to return. The results are screengrabs that show on the results page. You have to refresh your browser window, or bookmark the page and return to see the results, and they do expire. Here are the results from my test:

This is the results page...in this case, I asked for Safari on OSX, Firefox 1.5 on Linux, and IE 6 and 7 on Windows.

http://digitalmason.smugmug.com/photos/127055964-M.jpg

and clicking on the first thumbnail brings you to this:

http://digitalmason.smugmug.com/photos/127055956-M.jpg

Check it out!I like the idea, but 26 minutes is not useable.

Also, why can't i get any other browsers on mac/pc? Only IE on pc and Safari on Mac?

cmason

Feb-02-2007, 08:35 AM

I like the idea, but 26 minutes is not useable.

Also, why can't i get any other browsers on mac/pc? Only IE on pc and Safari on Mac?

26 mins beats having all those machines around, and all those browsers installed.

this isnt my site, so I don't know why there are no Firefox on PC, but again, it is useful vs the alternative, and its free, so I think it a bargain at the price :D

DJKennedy

Feb-02-2007, 10:03 AM

26 mins beats having all those machines around, and all those browsers installed.

this isnt my site, so I don't know why there are no Firefox on PC, but again, it is useful vs the alternative, and its free, so I think it a bargain at the price :D

I still think the sad part is it only checks IE for windoz, but cool anyway.

DJKennedy

Feb-02-2007, 10:45 AM

I still think the sad part is it only checks IE for windoz, but cool anyway.
I never did get a response - It was set to expire after 30 mins.

I stand corrected. when I went back to redo it, the screen shots where there so I have no idea how long it actually took.