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Package to Install ALL Older Browsers for Website Testing Purposes?


chaseman

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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.

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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.

 

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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 :)

 

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