Testing sliced pages in various browsers

Every frontend developer is responsable of testing the sliced pages in various browsers; a task that’s fustrating, mainly, because there are many browsers out there. On guest post I’ve detailed what’s important in testing slicing projects in various browsers and that is the task to come up with a list of the most important browsers that your website needs to support.

For example, a school project that will run on old computers the main browser will be IE6 or, let’s say, IE5.5. Therefor, although I’ll test the sliced pages in Firefox, Opera or Safari – latest version of them all – my main concern is to make the website’s pages work in IE6/IE5.5. Take a look at your website, establish the most important browsers that you need to support for the pages.

How to test sliced pages in browsers?

The main browsers to test sliced pages are Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer 7, Firefox, Opera, Safari and now, Google Chrome. The last 4 can be installed on your local PC. Internet Explorer 6 and 7 can be installed in the same time with a program called Multiple IE (works on XP). For Windows Vista users, you can use IETester – which, by the way, includes IE8 simulation, too.

At the end of this post, I’ve gathered a list of links pointing to various posts on multiple online applications and offline to test pages in browser.

Ideas.

Adobe Meermeer, for example, will simplify the live of a frontend developer once it’s up and running. But for now, it’s still under construction.

Conclusion.
There are numerous ways to test webpages in browsers that you don’t have. Free or paid, you’ll get your results.

Links.

[1] Browser Tests, Services and Compatibility Test Suites
[2] How To Test Website in Multiple Browsers for Compatibility
[3] 10 Helpful Resources for Cross Browser Testing
[4] Effectively Testing Your Website in Multiple Browsers