Pickle Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 hi everyone i have a question about testing css in different browsers. basically so far i have been using the following to test my sites in different versions of ie. http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE however i have read in certain places that it doesnt actually work. in other words it doesnt show you the right output of your code compared to how it would show if you actually had a proper version of i.e 6 on your machine. i have also read about virtual machines but to do this you need resources which i dont have. what do you guys suggest in this situation? how do you usually test your sites to make sure theyre all good in most browsers? thanks in advance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xcoderx Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 we use all the browsers to do it, also use firebug plugin which u get with firefox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seventheyejosh Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 I use a combination of VMWare Fusion + XP/ie7 & 7/ie8 when I'm on my MacBook, or I just use Wine when I'm on my Ubuntu laptop to run ie. Since my company only goes back to ie7, this works nicely Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pickle Posted February 23, 2010 Author Share Posted February 23, 2010 hi thanks for the replies. xcoderx --> not sure what you mean by your reply.obvisouly i have all other browsers i want to test in i.e. ie8, firefox, opera, chrome etc but the issues is with ie and its many varying versions. i need to make sure they work in ie8, ie7, ie6 seventheyejosh --> thanks ill look into wine since im not sure about virtual machines. thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seventheyejosh Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 A warning that it can be buggy, but it gets the job done. And you can only use it on *nix systems, AFAIK. So mac or linux OS and you're golden. Windows though, you'll probably have to do some virtualization, or that dll business with the browser versions. ANNDD... If you're running Safari, you can go to preferences and turn on developer tools, then under the new menu tell the page to render in whatever user agent you want!! All ie's, even iPhone, Opera, etc. I know this is at least on OSX, but haven't played with it too much or tried it on Window's Safari Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 I use http://litmusapp.com/ for my testing. It's not interactive (can't click on things, just screenshots) but it is super helpful with designing emails & pages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pickle Posted February 23, 2010 Author Share Posted February 23, 2010 great!! thanks guys really appreciate the help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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