For Testing in Multiple Browsers, I recommend ...

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    I see that the following site has had the odd brief mention some time ago here and there on these forums, but since it is my preferred site for browser screen shots, I hope no one minds if I mention it.

    I always use browsershots dot org (sorry can't yet post a link :( ) and don't mind paying a few dollars for the privelege of having as many screen shots as I want for a month (I use sub folders on a single domain for testing like this, as you only have to pay a very small fee per domain [presently 10 Euros] and get as many screen shots as you want). Its run by a student who has built an excellent solution for this kind of browser testing.

    I am in no way affiliated with the site or its owner, but can happily recommend the service. Paid requests get produced pretty quickly (a few minutes), free screen shots are available but as you will see, the queue gets quite long (13 hours when I last looked, but can sometimes be days long).
     
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  3. Tam

    Tam Peon

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    Nice tool! Thanks for that. Oddly enough, I had just finsihed coding a page when I read this and thought I'd try it out - found a problem with a background image not repeating (looks like it disappears when scrolling). I put it through browsershots as well, and got the same thing. grrr
     
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    However, I couldn't get any of the jpg versions to work - provides a missing image placeholder :(
     
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    sarahk iTamer Staff

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    I'll check those out.

    I was looking for something for safari recently but couldn't get the generated shots to match the user screen shots I'd been emailed. If you are debugging a skin you need to know it's working right :)
     
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    although im actually using safari i tried this for fun and it is a great tool!

    I love how it gets the WHOLE length of your page!

    I had that problem with my forum, but i was using

    http://www.mydomain.com/forum

    where as you need to use

    http://www.mydomain.com/forum/index.php

    :)
     
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    Odd, I was using the full url and still cannot get them, but that's no real hassle, png is just as good for me.

    And I cured my CSS problem, trust me to forget to include an overflow:visible entry :rolleyes: . Browsershots is pretty fast as well, a couple of minutes for all browser shots and no rules against multiple submissions of the same URL or different URLs on the same domain. And I'm kind of glad that they've taken off the thumbnails in their overall queue - your tentative work is no longer instantly visible to the whole world (although it could be inspiring for some).
     
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