How To Test Cross Platform Browser Compatibility For Your Website Or Blog

browsershots-logoDo you own a website or blog? Are you a webmaster? The most crucial thing about any website is cross browser compatibility. Any website must look same across all the browsers. Mainly mainstream browsers like Internet Explorer (IE6, IE7, IE8), Mozilla Firefox (3.0.x, 3.1, 3.5.x), Opera (8.x, 9.x, 10.x), Google Chrome and Apple Safari (3.x, 4.0) should render your website flawlessly. Installing each browser (that too with its versions) is not possible. Then how will you check your website compatibility? Browsershots.org will help you solve this problem. You can test your website against almost 80 browser versions and that includes Linux, Windows, Mac OS and BSD platforms. Along with the most popular browsers I listed above, there are more less known browsers like Flock, Seamonkey, dillo etc are also present.

How To Check?
On the homepage, all browser versions are listed with checkboxes. You can select browser versions you want to test your website against (Advice: Don’t select too many browsers at once. It takes lots of time to upload and may expire before completion. This is one drawback I felt. ). Enter your website address in the box given above the selection area and press Enter. It will take some time to upload screenshots of browser tests. That’s it. It will upload screenshots one by one as completes tests.

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2 Responses to “How To Test Cross Platform Browser Compatibility For Your Website Or Blog”

  1. Hi DV,
    As i’m a QA guy, It sounds great help to me buddy.
    Thanks for updating.

    Regards,
    Keyur

  2. Welcome Keyur. Finally, somebody found it useful… ;)