Adobe BrowserLab: Cross browser testing Nirvana
June 3, 2009
Adobe has just released BrowserLab (formerly Meer Meer). Quoting their website, the tool lets you ..
“Preview and test your web pages on leading browsers and operating systems – on demand. Adobe BrowserLab makes it easier and faster than ever before to see how your designs appear to your customers and audience. Get your results in real time, from virtually any computer connected to the web”
This is a snapshot of 2 views of my blog .. one on Firefox 3 – OSX and other on Firefox 3 – Windows XP .. onion skinned on top of each other …
Anyone who has built and deployed HTML+JavaScript+CSS websites knows that cross browser testing can be a pain. I think BrowserLab is a great addition to a web developers toolbox.
June 3rd, 2009
RT @mrinal: Adobe BrowserLab: Cross browser testing Nirvana http://tinyurl.com/pa7tqb
June 3rd, 2009
Mrinal,
Missing feature to be able to test intranet site is a big fail. May be a AIR version of BrowserLab can have this feature?
June 3rd, 2009
Raja,
I agree that would be a great ability.
But I don’t think its technically possible in an AIR app … my guess is that BrowserLab sends the url you want to test on different test machines .. runs them there in different browsers .. takes a snapshot and shows that back to you. Now since test servers have to open your url .. the url needs to be publicly accessible
Mrinal
July 6th, 2009
BrowserLab is really cool, but I would really like to see support for more browsers… the current set is fairly restrictive…
PS… Great site Mrinal
July 6th, 2009
@Charan yup, they definitely need to support more browsers .. I heard from someone from adobe on Twitter .. that they’re on it .. and more browsers’ support is coming soon.
And, Thank you .. glad you like it
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Mrinal
October 31st, 2009
Please check http://www.browserseal.com/ – although it supports only browsers that run on Windows (Firefox, Safari, IE6, IE7 and IE8) , it can easily beat BrowserLab in terms of speed.
November 2nd, 2009
Vyasa,
If someone using this for testing browser compatibility then covering all browsers is much more important than a few seconds gain of speed.
Mrinal
February 2nd, 2010
totally unusable for anyone who is not dealing with a public facing url. and how many times do you go public before you’ve tested? I know I don’t. Useless…