I had the awful experience the other day when showing my blog to a friend on their computer. I found out what my blog actually looked like in IE6. As you probably know, web browsers tend to behave slightly differently to each other, handling formatting in different ways. So how do you know what your site looks like on a different browser?
The problem that IE6 was having with Pingable was that some screenshots I had used filled the entire width of the content column, and the margins of objects surrounding had coursed IE6 to push the right sidebar down to below the left sidebar…ugly.
Unless you own three different computers, a MAC, a Windows PC, and a Linux PC, it’s impossible to see what your site will look like on every possible web browser. Any number of your users could be browsing on a different browser that may be having all sorts of issues with the formatting of your site. So what’s the solution?
This site takes screenshots of your Web site in different web browsers then posts them for you to view. The process is rather slow, however, it is very reassuring to know what your site looks like on other browsers. It is well worth a visit if this sort of thing worries you.
Update: Another useful site on this topic: Any Browser
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WOW!!!
Very useful tool!
I shall use that very often - thanks so much!
The only downside to it is you can’t check roll-overs and other similar interactive web site features…
But it’s still nice!
Really cool Surely going to use it right now thanx for sharing
This is a great tool, and just what I have been looking for. Thanks a lot for sharing. Now I just need to figure out how to fix my page. seems like it’s not working on every browser.