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windows 7 released sort of....

Posted Wed, 10/21/2009 - 19:28 by tonetheman

We had trouble getting Windows 7 running due to a problem with the display driver, and even now it is running slow. We are working on it with Vmware. We felt like it was important to get it out. So slow is better than nothing at all.

The longer story is... we use Vmware ESXI to power our site and the display driver + Windows 7 does not make for a happy combination.

Some of the links we used to work through our problems were

New cool bookmarklet

Posted Thu, 09/17/2009 - 22:15 by tonetheman

We have just added a cool bookmarklet that makes our site even easier to use for website compatibility testing. You can find it on the My Testing Center.

Once you install the bookmarklet, you can click on it to live test any site you are currently on!

What is really cool about the whole thing is how it can change your workflow in testing. You can work on a site and get it to your liking and two clicks later you can look at that site in IE6, Opera or Chrome. You can even run screenshots.

IE's demise makes "cross browser" even more important

Posted Mon, 01/05/2009 - 20:10 by tonetheman

Here is a great article on SitePoint about how IE's decline is making crossbrowsertesting.com important for web developers.

As browser parity nears (at least in terms of user reach), cross browser and cross platform functionality is becoming more and more important.

Web developers will end up with more work for all of this of course. Which is why we came up with a site for browser testing in the first place (we are web developers!)

first year for crossbrowsertesting.com

Posted Thu, 01/01/2009 - 21:51 by tonetheman

Crossbrowsertesting.com started this year (in March really) because of a need that we had. We thought other people probably had the same problem: cross browser testing.

In the 9 months that we have been active, we have had just over 38,000 individual browser testing sessions run. During that same 9 months, we went from 3 users (us) to over 6,700 registered users!

use you own vnc client software at crossbrowsertesting

Posted Tue, 09/30/2008 - 15:56 by tonetheman

Now you can use your own software installed on your own machine to work on crossbrowsertesting.com. You can still use the java applet if you choose.

The clients that we recommend for Windows is TightVNC. For Ubuntu it works great with Vinagre (the default). And for the macs we like Chicken of the VNC.

browser breaks

Posted Thu, 04/03/2008 - 08:03 by tonetheman

I saw this article on digg.com which lead me to the source.

I can verify that a lot of people are still testing IE6 (it was the top browser in our stats for the last 30 days).

No matter which browser you are having to support... you can always go to CrossBrowserTesting.com to make sense of it all.

holy moly... someone posted us on to hacker news....

Posted Sat, 03/22/2008 - 12:48 by tonetheman

Wow, we got posted on hacker news. That is really cool. And we did not even have to pay them or anything... :)

hello world...

Posted Fri, 03/07/2008 - 16:03 by tonetheman

it is only fitting that my first post should be hello world.

It is snowing now and the ground is turning white. The kids are jones'ing to go outside.

That is about it.

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