Finally A Tool For Cross-Browser Compatibility Testing!!!

It’s about time one of the big software companies came out with a tool for testing the web design in multiple browsers all in one place without having to have a computer farm sitting there with all different browsers loaded for testing.

I’ve been struggling with this problem just like most web designers, I assume. I have two machines, an iMac and a PC lap top. The mac has Parallels Desktop on it so I have 3 Windows installations running on it, each with different version of Internet Explorer on it. It is a pain to run because Parallels is a resources hog and having it run at in the background all the time slows the machine down but having to start it up just to test a design is annoying because it takes it long to start up and I just wished there was a better solution.

On my PC I have IE6 installed as well as Firefox3 and Chrome. That is fine and works well for me but I still do not have a IE8 testing browser so that was kinda bad.

As I was reading the last month’s Web Designer magazine they talked about Adobe BrowserLab and that was great news for me! Quickly I went and logged into my Adobe account and signed up. I got a year worth of complimentary membership to Adobe Live, but I am not sure if the word “complimentary” means that they are going to charge for it after my subscription expires. Any way, I ran the test and it worked great! So not I am a happy camper and my sites should now work well in IE8.