Internet Browsers

Lively Browser 3.4.1

 

How do I check ClearType?

 

full list here and I beleive already marked ones are mostly used
http://browsershots.org/

 

I use both firefox and internet explorer for my online experience. This is important because I develop websites and need to know how they would appear on the viewers end.

 

What about Opera and Safari?

IE, Opera, Firefox and Safari are the 5 you should be testing on.

 

Gah, I forgot where it's at.

Precisely. IE 6, IE 7, Firefox, Opera and Safari. If you're not testing against all four rendering engines as you develop your Web site (and yes, there ARE differences between them all), you're doing something wrong.

 

Hmm. I will try and find that ClearType thing on IE.

I found something, I unchecked two boxes and IE is looking good.

 

I think i recently came across BrowserShots website which offer screenshots for your sites. I haven't yet tried it so far but it looks so good to be true. It gives you info on how your site looks at various browsers at various resolutions with various other stuff.

 

Although we are really discussing general use graphical Browsers here, if you wish to check how your pages render and function in Textual Browsers, the Yellowpipe Lynx (text only) viewer is an excellent utility that emulates the output of the most popular textual Browser.

James

 

Internet Explore is at 1st and Firefox is at 2nd.

 

BLAHHHH this is all you need!

http://browsershots.org/

 

post something stupid like this again and get reported!!!

 

^ re browsershots.org:

It is a nice tool, I agree, but I don't use it for many reasons:
1:
I submit a site, wait 45 minutes, it's dropped from the queue even though I extended the time, reasubmit, get two screenshots, wait some more... I can't test like that, really.
2:
I submit a site, which has either JS, or CSS tooltips... can't see that working on the browsershots at all.
3:
I get to see what one page looks like. A 50-page website... would take me like a week to check in browsershots : )

There is another site called BrowserCam, where, for a fee, you can control the dummy machines and test your CSS and Javacript and other stuff... I don't use this either because testing yourself in real browsers (which are free, for the most part) is just easier and, I think, safer. On some other forums there are sign-ups for BrowserCam so people can pay in groups to get a discount.

Lastly, just because someone's answer isn't super-helpful doesn't mean they should get reported to anyone. People here are at all different levels with HTML and CSS. I agree with you that limiting yourself to just 2 browsers is not a good idea.

 

I have used this once. It worked good. Produced almost all the screen shots requested. (I request all) and I got download the screenshots.

I would reccomend it. Just takes a short time. However go and using all the browsers yourself would take even longer.

 

My two cents here:

When doing layout things I check every change I make in FF, IE6 and 7, Opera and Safari. I have the page I'm working on open in all those browsers at the time and refresh every browser after every change I make. Doing it like this I will be able to discover when, where and why something doesn´t work right in a or some browsers.

I don´t develop a (good part) of a page only to afterwards check how it looks because I most likely will notice "issues" that take me ages to pinpoint.

Check all along the road, continuously, to save time and deceptions is what I learned the hard way.

Greetings.

 

That's exactly what I do as well. (Nice seeing you again. Where've ya been?)

 

Hi Dan,

Nice seeing you too!

I hope life is treating you as you deserve.

I've been busy doing other things to my site not very html/css related. Well, not that related, I've been able to fight my way through the issues I've been encountering without having to emit SOS's. Instead of a NOOB I'am a noob now, apparently.

I've been playing a lot with my phpBB2 and with Sphider lately. Sphider is great.

And right now I'm beginning to get to know phpBB3, in particular I started to try and turn their new XHTML compliant Prosilver style into an exact copy of my current phpBB2 style. Quite a big improvment I must say, Prosilver is a far better coded style then the subSilver I based my current style on.

It's not easy I must admit, but it's nice and interesting learning material.

The need of close monitoring with multiple browsers of all my editing is, well, a must.

 

Heh. I'm an SMF and WordPress guy myself. But yeah, I'm doing better now. My mom's not, but she is getting better herself.