Tools to test a website for Cross Browser Compatibility

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From a designer’s perspective creating a website is not a difficult task, however, a designer come across difficult perspective design wise by making them compatible on all the prominent web browsers. However, there are many tools that a designer can use to check out the cross browser compatibility of a website. Below are some of the prominent tools for cross browsers compatibility are provided from a designer’s perspective.

•Adobe Browser Lab: This tool is very handy while showing screenshots of a designed website on different environments. By default it can test browsers like Firefox 3.0 on Windows XP and OS X, Internet Explorer 7.0 on Windows XP, and Safari 3.0 on OS X. However, if you want test a different browser can change it under “Browser Sets”. Other useful feature of this tool is provision of side-by-side views of a website on different browsers.

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•Browser Shots: On this tool screenshots of a website is shown on different browsers with great degree of customization. Browser shots on this tool allows for screen size, color depth, JavaScript and Flash settings. This website has kitchen sink features of browser lists that a designer would even hear for a first time.

•Super Preview: This tool is very handy in order to make working easier on various IE platforms less painful. The SuperPreview download for Internet Explorer let a designer to check his website in multiple versions of Internet Explorer. Super Preview let a designer to check a web page simultaneously even developing in on a local machine.

•Litmus: This tool is not only capable of giving screenshots but also allows checking website in multiple browsers, in tracking bugs, creating reports. This tool even work over password protected websites too. For IE 7 and Firefox 2, the tool is free for 50 tests per month. However a website on all 24 browses can be checked out on $39 project pass.

•Cross Browser Testing :This tool is the best for well organized screenshot views on multiple browsers for nice overview of a website. Even live testing services of this tool are bank of test machines.

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•Spoon Browser Sandbox It is a very sleek, fast tool that can show up multiple browsers in an instant time and quick look up. From the tools launch page you can test pages live in Safari, Chrome, IE, Firefox.