Tools To Keep Your Site Cross Browser Compatible
16. Mar, 2010 
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Cross Browser Compatibility is very important in ensuring the continuing success of your website, a website is no good to anyone if it does not work or display properly for the user. Designers and developers alike must create and continually check websites to ensure they display and function correctly, the words ‘Cross Browser Compatiblity’ should be in the back of your minds, from the planning stages up.
Spoon Browser Sandbox
Spoon is a browser sandbox that allows you to test pages live in Safari, Chrome, IE, Firefox. This tool is great as it allows you to navigate and view your site live in different browser versions.
Browser Shots
Browser Shots makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers. When you submit your web site, it will be added to the queue. A number of distributed computers will open your website in their browser. Then they will make screenshots and upload them to the central server for you to see at Browser Shots.
Adobe Browser Lab
Adobe Browser Lab allows you to see screenshots of your site as seen on several different environments. The default browser compatibility test includes Firefox 3.0 on Windows XP and OS X, Internet Explorer 7.0 on Windows XP, and Safari 3.0 on OS X.
Litmus
Litmus shows you screenshots of your websites as they look across all major web browsers. Litmus is super-fast, iterative compatibility testing is now easy, reliable and affordable. It allows you to keep track of where the outstanding bugs are within all the page templates you’re working on.
SuperPreview
SuperPreview lets you view your pages in many different ways. It allows you to view browser renderings side-by-side horizontally or vertically, or overlay them to identify differences. SuperPreview also allows you to use rulers and guides to measure and highlight visual problems. You can zoom in and out of a page and see all the browser renderings update in tandem.
Cross Browser Testing
Cross Browser Testing allows you to test your website live via your browser and remote VNC sessions. Now you can interactively test your ajax, javascript, and flash on all operating systems and browsers from anywhere!
Firebug
Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of web development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.
IETester
IETester is a free WebBrowser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Windows 7, Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process.
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Excellent post, Firebug is definitely one of the better tools.
Excellent tips, very helpful.
Thank you for the resources, valuable. I love Firebug. How does it help with cross-browser testing? Are you referring to the embeddable script which provides a subset of Firebug and the new Chrome extension? Would love to know if there was more. thanks again.
Currely in this world cross browsers issues are very hot. This can solve problems of it.
Thanks a lot.
Have you taken a look at the cross browser testing service from Cloud Testing?
We allow scripts to be run against your website, capturing screenshots of the results.
Adobe Browser Lab is great because you can save “Browser Sets.” If you always test IE6 & IE7, save both as a single Browser Set. Next time you need to test, select the Set and bam! Browser Lab returns screen shots of both IE browsers. Super easy… and free.
Please consider adding BrowserSeal to this list – we have some unique features that other services lack.