[web developer]

Hi guys,

I have a PHP website of 15 pages. I want to test browser compatibility for my website for all browsers.

Can anybody help me with this?

thanks,
Prashant

[zed]

install the browsers.

[web developer]

zed, on 28 January 2012 - 03:14 PM, said:

install the browsers.

Can you please tell me in detail?

[zed]

in·stall   [in-stawl]
verb (used with object)
1.
to place in position or connect for service or use: to install a heating system; to install software on a computer.

2.
to establish in an office, position, or place: to install oneself in new quarters.

3.
to induct into an office or the like with ceremonies or formalities.




the
1    [stressed thee; unstressed before a consonant thuh; unstressed before a vowel thee]

definite article
1.
(used, especially before a noun, with a specifying or particularizing effect, as opposed to the indefinite or generalizing force of the indefinite article a or an ): the book you gave me; Come into the house.

2.
(used to mark a proper noun, natural phenomenon, ship, building, time, point of the compass, branch of endeavor, or field of study as something well-known or unique): the sun; the Alps; the Queen Elizabeth; the past; the West.

3.
(used with or as part of a title): the Duke of Wellington; the Reverend john smith.

4.
(used to mark a noun as indicating the best-known, most approved, most important, most satisfying, etc.): the skiing center of the U.S.; If you're going to work hard, now is the time.

5.
(used to mark a noun as being used generically): The dog is a quadruped.



brows·er   [brou-zer]

noun
1.
a person or thing that browses.

2.
Computers . a software program that allows the user to find and read encoded documents in a form suitable for display, especially such a program for use on the World Wide Web


better?

[AmityWeb]

Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari and one version of Internet Explorer can all be installed on one OS. The problem is Internet Explorer. Microsoft in their wisdom only allow one version on Windows. So you would need at least 4 Windows computers for IE7, IE8, IE9 and soon IE10. Don't bother with IE6 anymore.

What I do is use Oracles free VirtualBox VM solution to install multiple Windows on my machine. I have XP with Windows 7, then 2x Windows 7 for IE8 and IE9. Of course, legally you need to buy all these licenses, although you may decide to just clone a VM install and not bother, as they still work. You still need ar least 1 Xp and 1 Windiws 7 license.

Microsoft have released their own images so you can do the above but they expire and you have to download and install all the windows again.

Sometimes I wonder if it's microsoft intentionally make it difficult to sell all these windows licenses to developers!

This post has been edited by AmityWeb: 29 January 2012 - 07:20 PM

[Wickham]

AmityWeb, on 29 January 2012 - 07:19 PM, said:

Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari and one version of Internet Explorer can all be installed on one OS. The problem is Internet Explorer. Microsoft in their wisdom only allow one version on Windows. So you would need at least 4 Windows computers for IE7, IE8, IE9 and soon IE10. Don't bother with IE6 anymore.

If you have IE9 you can use F12 Developer Tools to see what IE8 or IE7 look like, so it's no longer necessary to have several computers. Developer Tools are an emulation for the other versions so may not be precisely the same in all respects, but quite good enough normally.

Google Chrome uses the same WebKit engine as Safari, so again it may not be necessary to have both but I did see once that Chrome uses an older version of WebKit, but since it updates regularly automatically, that may mean that Chrome is sufficiently close to Safari not to need both browsers. Chrome seems to be used much more than Safari, see
http://www.w3schools...wsers_stats.asp so I would use Firefox, IE9, Chrome and Opera.

[SummerSky]

I found a reference to Netrenderer a while back, but haven't used it yet. So no idea if it works as well as they say, but it may be of use to you.

[Matt Maclennan]

Hi there!

I use Adobe Browserlab. This is good for what I do, because you can overlay 2 browsers, and easily see the differences. Best thing is, you don't have to install any extra browsers.

Quote

install the browsers.

Zed is right, if you are web developing, you should really have all the common web browsers installed, but because I'm feeling kind, here are the links

Google Chrome
Firefox
Internet Explorer
Safari

Hope this helps!

[FizixRichard]

I'd add *cringe* Opera *cringe* to that list Matt, then I'd say you have the important ones. While it's not used as much as the others, it still has a decent coverage.

I'd also add that it can be worth checking browsers on PC and their Mac equivalent as there can be differences and on smartphone / alternative devices as usage there is growing rapidly.