Group together and form a screenshot-sharing community!

I have troubles testing my webpage on different systems. Who wants to join (up to 5 people), me and help taking screenshots on your systems, of my page, in exchange to having me do the same for you?

Say, once a week we all take screenshots of the different pages and put them in a ftp-folder on my server.

Or does anyone have an idea to where this could be found elsewhere (for free) on the www?

Btw, my system is IE 6, WinXP

Hi

There is only one free automated service I know of, to get screen shots in Safari 1.2 on the Mac.

www.danvine.com/icapture

From the blurb, he's shoping to add IE 5.x MAC and earlier versions of Safari too, but for now it's just Safari 1.2.

The results are of a 1024x768 screen in png format. The trouble with this is that you can't get anything that is below the initial viewport, nor can you test screen re-sizing. As Safari has problems when re-sizing (it gets elements in the wrong place sometimes) and it handles a full height design quite badly unless you are really careful, this is a problem.

Also, what you offer (IE6 + XP) isn't what people want to test in. Just as Mozilla/Navigator/Opera are easily available. The REAL bug bears are Safari for Mac (especially 1.1 or earlier), IE 5.x for Mac and IE 5.x Windows

And not so many folks have these any more.

Good luck in your search though.





Trevor

I don't understand, what good would be looking at an image of your screen in a different browser? An image is an image right?

I'd suggest using http://anybrowser.com to test your site out.

Hi Executive

No, an image shows you what a browser does with your code. The results from the same code in different browsers can be radically different, which often isn't the intention of the author.

I can often spot the likely problem by just comparing screenshots of the same url in different browsers, as most bugs are well documented and how they affect the layout on the screen is thus predictable.

Anybrowser simply checks the code against the standard and gives a poor display of the code. If you don't believe me, look at this url in your browser:

http://207.44.137.103/allbrowsertest.html

and then view it in anybrowser.

I used loads of screenshots to hone down that code so that it works across as many browsers as I could get it to (apologies to Mac IE 5 users, that was beyond mine and many others skills to fix).




Trevor

Oh, I see, you take a screen shot of someone elses site.. duhh.. I was thinking, what good would it be for people to look at an image I took.