NYCPHP Meetup

[Artur Marnik]

Hi Michele

I really like what you are doing. Some tools are just to expensive for a 
casual programmer/designer.
But if anyone is looking for a free tool take a look at: 
http://browsershots.org/ it has some ads on the page but it does the job 
done as well.

Artur




Michele Waldman wrote:
> Don't work you aren't raining on my parade.  It's more like a trail of tears
> for me.  (If you don't know what a trail of tears is then you can Yahoo!
> It.)
>
> I've had problems with running virtual machines on my computer.  The last
> time I tried it failed on me and I didn't have more time to look into it.
>
> Using this website saves me from having a ton of more software loaded on my
> one overloaded ancient pc.
>
> I don't need it extensively so it's a good solution for me.  If I was doing
> more heavy css testing I might have to consider something else, but it fits
> my needs of periodic testing.  If you have a group subscription then the
> price is nominal.
>
> Plus, I don't test one at a time.  I select many browsers at once and in
> renders them all about 15 minutes later, while I'm doing something else.
>
> If there's a specific problem, then I can put my attention to it.
>
> Michele
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org [mailto:talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org]
>> On Behalf Of David Krings
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 8:11 PM
>> To: NYPHP Talk
>> Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] Periodic Browsercam.com group availability
>>
>> Michele Waldman wrote:
>>     
>>> on with the development.  How many times have you thought, "I wonder
>>> what it looks like in IE6?"  So, join a group now.
>>>       
>> I don't want to rain on your parade, but isn't that something a VM and the
>> IE
>> package from Tredosoft can do? Does browsercam do something that the
>> regular
>> IE instances can't do? When I test browser based apps at work I have one
>> Windows VM and a Linux VM with all the popular and not so popular browsers
>> including IE from version 3.0 up. That covers all rendering engines and
>> about
>> all OS (after all Mac OS X is just a window manager on top of BSD, but I
>> also
>> got a Mac for testing). I recently transferred those VMs from Workstation
>> to
>> Server 2.0 so that I can run it one a different box. And with the free
>> TechNet
>> accounts that Microsoft gives out I could even run the IEs natively on yet
>> another set of VMs.
>>
>> David
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