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Checking Browser Compatibility Posted in Website Design, Website Usability, Concocted by Fred Roed,
Published on 5 November 2007

When I opened my del.icio.us account many moons ago, I was tagging everything I found like a kid with a new toy. One of the first sites I bookmarked never really lived up to my expectations and I haven’t re-visited it for years. However I stumbled upon it again this morning and

found the results far better.Picture_2

In the web industry its vital that you check your sites for browser compatibility and browsershots.org now appears to do this really well. It gave me eight screenshots within 30 minutes from users with those browsers I needed to test. Of course, you can’t check usability stuff like drop downs working correctly but its a nice snapshot to check quickly.

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Fred Roed

Fred is the CEO of digital marketing agency World Wide Creative. Fred co-founded The Heavy Chef Project, as well as Ideate, a forum for African entrepreneurs. Fred focuses on online brand building, marketing strategy and loud Hawaiian shirts. Fred is famous for his sartorial excellence, long diatribes about music and fanatical attention to detail when making pizza. Follow Fred on Twitter: www.twitter.com/Fred_Roed

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