adobe BrowserLab

After reading Layla's blog post earlier this week I spoke with a friend and he turned me on to Adobe BrowserLab. BrowserLab is a hosted web service that provides snapshots of your web site in multiple browsers. It is currently in a limited free preview for people to try out from adobe.com. The best part about ABL is that it can be integrated with Adobe Dreamweaver CS4. All you have to do is go to the link below and download two extensions from the site. You will also need to create an adobe account but its free and their really isn't much information required. Plus by creating an account you will get emails about more products like browserland. So try it out!

https://browserlab.adobe.com/index.html#

jk

mutliple IEs - a follow up

Frustrated by the fact that I still was not getting the standalone ie6 to work following the article I mentioned in this post, I did more digging and eventually unearthed this: http://finalbuilds.edskes.net/iecollection.htm Why was this so hard to find? Beats me. But I have installed it and so far it seems to be working. Right now I have IE8 as my 'real' browser and standalones of the rest. Note that the instructions caution you not to have IE as your default browser. As if!!!

It will install 2 different IE6s (actually it will install what you select, from like IE1 on, although IE1 wasn't compatible with my OD nor did I want it.) Turns out that one is the IE6 from XPSP1 and the other is SP2. If I had realized ahead of time I'm not sure I would have bothered with the first one.

running ie 6, 7 and 8

just read this - for the curious:

http://blog.case.edu/jeremy.smith/2008/03/07/ie_6_7_and_8_running_on_same_machine

I'll be trying it fairly soon, because I still like to test in 6, but I guess some goobers are using 8 now!