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    I'm curious how everyone does browser compliance testing?

    I work on macs, I don't own a PC. However, I've been doing a lot more web design lately and I feel like i should have one around for testing purposes.

    At first I thought I would use Boot Camp. But, when I asked my friend who's an apple tech, he told me to steer clear of Boot Camp. I trust his advice so I'm not going to mess with that.

    He recommended VMware Fusion. Anyone have any experience with this prodcut?

    I understand it costs around $80 plus you need to buy a windows license.

    I'm wondering if its worth spending the $ on a whole computer or just go the VMware route.

    How does everyone else test their designs in other browsers?
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    Considering that a new cheap laptop costs about 300€ and comes with Vista, I'd say buy a laptop.

    If you're looking for virtualization software, I've personally had VirtualBox sitting in my downloads stack for a couple of months, waiting to be tried out. I've heard some good things about it, and it's free, too.
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    Yea, I was kinda thinking the same thing about the laptop.

    I'll look into VirtualBox, free is always good!

    Thanks,

    Justin
    • CommentAuthor993C4S
    • CommentTimeFeb 10th 2009
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    How about browsershots.org? This way no need to spend money on anything...
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    I've been happily running Parallels on my MacBook Pro for 2 1/2 years now. I keep most of my apps on Mac (like Photoshop, etc.) but I have several browsers installed in Windows (XP) for testing.

    It's the best of both worlds - Mac and Windows on the same platform - and not very expensive.

    www.parallels.com
    • CommentAuthorjusten
    • CommentTimeMay 3rd 2009
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    I use VirtualBox as well on a Windows Vista dev pc. I have two Windows VMs, so that gives me 3 versions of every major browser, and a Mac VM running OS_x86. I also run a Linux desktop, though I usually don't bother doing testing in the various linux browsers since pretty much everyone I know of who uses Linux as a desktop uses Firefox on it.
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    If you have access to the internet, you can use a free service like, Browsershots.org, to generate a image preview of how your website layout and design will look like in various browsers across the major platforms.

    I make use of the Browsershots a lot when I'm writing/editing a page on my Linux netbook.

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