iCapture
Now, I’ve seen BrowserCam before, a site which will visit a URL in one of many browsers and take a screenshot for you, enabling you to see if the site works in one of those browsers that you just don’t have the chance to test. But it costs money, and I don’t like paying money because I’m cheap. Enter iCapture, which takes shots in Safari on a Mac, and its sister site ieCapture which takes shots in Firefox, Opera, and various IE versions on a PC. Fantastic resource.
I need to think about getting IE running under Wine here on my Linux box, and installing Konqueror and Opera properly. Konqueror is supposedly close enough to Safari that you can test in one and that will count for the other, although I have my doubts as to how quickly the Safari changes to KHTML are merged back into Konq and made available in Debian. If anyone’s got any further information on that I’d be very interested to hear it.
In my brief experience of Konqueror, everything tends to fall apart. I’ll do something that looks sweet in Mozilla (which usually delivers things as you expect first time) and then I’ll tweak it a bit to nail IE, and then I get to Konqueror and it’s in such a mess I can’t be bothered to start again.
7 hours later
Yeah, I find that with Konq. The worry is that, if it’s that screwed in Konqueror, then it might be that screwed in Safari too, which will annoy Mac people. If it’s not that screwed in Safari, then the Safari codebase isn’t being integrated back into Konqueror, and I don’t know which of these it is…
17 hours later
Quiet frankly if you stop trying to make it work in mozilla it will help you a lot. Don’t make a site that works in a browser and tweak it for other browsers. Make a site with w3c standards and eliminate that which isn’t supported by all browsers. My websites all work in opera, mozilla, firefox, IE, netscape, konqueror, safari, and a few other unknowns. The magic is in the code not the browser.
2 weeks later
Quite frankly, I do make a site with W3C standards. Then, I fix it in all those browsers which don’t support the standards, which is everything except Mozilla. “Coding a site to the standards” and “coding a site for Moz” are pretty much the same thing.
2 weeks later