chaseman Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 I want to test my website design in older browsers, and I was wondering is there a package to install all of them at once or do I have to go and download them all one by one? What would be good practice to do this? I'd like to go back in IE till let's say version 7 (maybe 6). With Firefox 3 or 2. And I don't know about Chrome. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/235294-package-to-install-all-older-browsers-for-website-testing-purposes/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pikachu2000 Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 There's no need to install all of them, really. If you want to see the ones that are less common, this site will give you a screenshot of almost every combination of browser and OS you can imagine. http://browsershots.org/ Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/235294-package-to-install-all-older-browsers-for-website-testing-purposes/#findComment-1209176 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cs.punk Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 There's no need to install all of them, really. If you want to see the ones that are less common, this site will give you a screenshot of almost every combination of browser and OS you can imagine. http://browsershots.org/ I think we need to sticky that! Such a valuble resource. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/235294-package-to-install-all-older-browsers-for-website-testing-purposes/#findComment-1209185 Share on other sites More sharing options...
QuickOldCar Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 The site is pretty cool. I like how they have the similar looking sites, and also what colors they use. Since I take website snapshots.....I thought to myself wow that site is so amazing, how in the world did they make snapshots work for all the browsers and versions along with on different operating systems yet, must be one heck of a code. Then I saw this. These 58 computers are run by volunteers to make browser screenshots. So they have people with that browser loaded actually snapping them manually, quite a bit of work they got there. So that means you won't get instant results. I myself have a few different ways of taking them using bat files, command line in scripts, using IE or Firefox, various snapshot plugins used along with printscreen. I let gd do all my resizing. A friend of mine made one that works very well for linux and Xvfb using multiple firefox sessions. http://wimg.ca/ Back on subject..... https://browserlab.adobe.com/ integrated in dreamweaver cs4 Then this will view a lot of IE versions http://ipinfo.info/netrenderer/ And might as well show you this multiple browser screenshot tool as well http://www.browserseal.com/ I'm sure there are dozens more out there. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/235294-package-to-install-all-older-browsers-for-website-testing-purposes/#findComment-1209449 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cs.punk Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 The site is pretty cool. I like how they have the similar looking sites, and also what colors they use. Since I take website snapshots.....I thought to myself wow that site is so amazing, how in the world did they make snapshots work for all the browsers and versions along with on different operating systems yet, must be one heck of a code. Then I saw this. These 58 computers are run by volunteers to make browser screenshots. So they have people with that browser loaded actually snapping them manually, quite a bit of work they got there. So that means you won't get instant results. I myself have a few different ways of taking them using bat files, command line in scripts, using IE or Firefox, various snapshot plugins used along with printscreen. I let gd do all my resizing. A friend of mine made one that works very well for linux and Xvfb using multiple firefox sessions. http://wimg.ca/ Back on subject..... https://browserlab.adobe.com/ integrated in dreamweaver cs4 Then this will view a lot of IE versions http://ipinfo.info/netrenderer/ And might as well show you this multiple browser screenshot tool as well http://www.browserseal.com/ I'm sure there are dozens more out there. Manually? lol that'd be a bit hectic... As far as I can see it's automated, you have a stand alone/unbusy pc (the 'contributors') and python scripts automate the whole load, snap, upload process Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/235294-package-to-install-all-older-browsers-for-website-testing-purposes/#findComment-1209613 Share on other sites More sharing options...
QuickOldCar Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 My bad, now that I found the code, I see they use python scripts. http://browsershots.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/235294-package-to-install-all-older-browsers-for-website-testing-purposes/#findComment-1209621 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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