Sent by Matt.Wilkie on 17 July 2002 16:04
The mantra of "test in many browsers" is oft heard and repeated throughout
the land.
Okay, I'll bite. How?
I have Mozilla 1.1, IE 5.5 and Lynx (via cygwin) installed on my w2k
workstation, and access to a machine with IE5.0. So I have 4 permutations
covered. What about the rest?
I sure don't want to install an older version of IE or Netscape on this
machine, what with each version overwriting system dlls and claiming file
associations etc. I understand Opera is better behaved but I'm apprehensive
about putting it to the test. I don't have enough workstations at my
disposal to dedicate each one do a different browser (and then play musical
chairs to see what they all look like).
I see it is standard practice to post "site check please" threads to the
list, however my current project is behind the firewall. Besides, how many
newbie sites will people check out, and comment on, before getting tired of
correcting the same old mistakes?
I have discovered an online service which will read my site and approximate
for me what a Lynx user sees[0]. Are there similar services for other
browsers? Why not?
What do you people do?
[0] http://www.delorie.com/web/lynxview.html
thanks in advance, will sum when done.
-- Matt Wilkie
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