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Friday, July 21, 2006

Don't forget Safari with your website designs

Its pretty easy to get caught up in designing for 98% of the user of a website by hitting the majors: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Netscape. But don't alienate the Safari users out there.

Windows users can test a website in Safari by using on of two services: iCapture (free), BrowserCam (not so free). BrowserCam goes so far beyond Safari that its not a bad choice to 'finalize' your design by signing up for a month of their service.

If you're designing for Firefox there a pretty good chance it will work without issue in Safari but better to be safe than sorry.

iCapture:
http://www.danvine.com/icapture/

BrowserCam:
http://www.browsercam.com/

posted by Veign at 9:56 AM

2 Comments:

  • You can also use Browsershots, another free service that provides good results. It includes support for a very wide range of browsers, including IE 6.0, Firefox 1.x, Firefox 1.5.x, Mozilla, Epiphony, Galeon, Opera, and Konqueror. It even gives you a choice of resolutions.

    Safari support is not currently available, but it's an identified gap and work is progressing on a permanent solution. Konqueror, however, should give a reasonable impression of how your site will render in Safari, as they're both based on the same underlying KHTML engine.

    The only drawback to this service is that it can sometimes take a while to get the results back, depending on the number of people queued ahead of you.

    By Anonymous nitro322, at 1:21 PM EST  

  • Great information.

    Funny thing is I did a blog post on Browsershots but totally forgot about them...

    By Blogger Veign, at 8:10 PM EST  

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