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December 14, 2005
BrowserCam
Despite the name sounding a little suspicious, BrowserCam looks very interesting. One of their two main product lines is a "remote screenshot grabber", which allows you to easily compare how your sites look on a multitude of different browsers, platforms and resolutions.
Warning for the pure of heart: The service is not free, neither beer nor speech. You can create a trial account which will work for a maximum of 24 hours and 200 captures.
I am not sure how much we are going to use it for this project - but definitely a handy tool for all kinds of layout testing.
Here is a screenshot of the "View" functionality of the application:
It compares the look of oceans.greenpeace.org in 6 different browsers, including IE 5 for Mac.
The web interface is very slick, with lots of small niceties. But it is the core idea that is brilliant - the rest is just a good implementation.
Posted by Nis Jorgensen at December 14, 2005 4:40 PM
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http://browsershots.org is an excellent free (or cheap if you want priority service) alternative.
Posted by: Richie Hindle at December 15, 2005 1:14 PM
Will checkout browsershots.org later.
For now just a few counterpoints to my first enthusiastic post:
1. Their site consistently hangs in Firefox when I click around fast between pages. Probably a problem with HTTP pipelining combined with god-knows-what.
2. Surprisingly, their webdevelopers seem to be COMPLETELY oblivious to the existence of web and html-coding standards.
Posted by: Nis Jorgensen at December 15, 2005 3:11 PM