subject: A Quick Overview Of Cross Browser Testing Applications And Services [print this page] In World Wide Web, there are various popular browsers such as Internet Explorer 8, 7, 6 and 5.5, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome etc, has a big share in marketplace. Since, online visitors are free to access particular web portal on any of the above discussed browsers and so, it is important that a website is highly compatible with all the browsers. From past few years, a constant growth seen in number of online browsers which brings cross-browser testing is real picture.
There are numerous cross-browser compatibility testing applications and services presently available in the marketplace. Below, a detailed overview of various tools of cross-browser compatibility testing discussed in brief:
Adobe BrowserLab
Adobe BrowserLabs is another cross browser compatibility testing tool written in Flash. The best part is that this application is available for free preview mode. The most noteworthy quality of Adobe BrowserLabs is that it is highly easy-to-use. This cross browser compatibility testing tool comes with support of 12 browsers including Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari as well as Operating System version combinations.
BrowserShots
It is well-known free online multi-browser screenshot service capable to support around total of 100 plus different browsers and operating system in combination. The response time is the major problem in the BrowserShots. For this highly popular a person needs to pay $29.95/month.
Browsera
Browsera is one-of-its-kind web-based screenshot service mainly supports popular browsers like Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari. This is the most advanced web service which comes with interesting features such as recursive website crawling, page crawling, authentication and scroll bars.
Microsoft Expression Web SuperPreview
Microsoft's Expression Web SuperPreview is the most newfangled and advanced tool available as free of cost most commonly used for checking accessibility of web pages but limited to Internet Explorer. Apart from that, the particular cross browser application supports mainly Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8. On top of that, it comes with full version support for Firefox and Safari.
BrowserSeal
BrowserSeal is an advanced tool comes with good capture speed supports multiple versions of IE, Firefox, Safari, Opera and Chrome. The best part of BrowserSeal is that it offer command-line interface basically for automation scripting and standalone browser support which makes this standard application best option among all its competitors. Apart from that, one of its disadvantage is that it mainly runs only on Windows.
BrowserCam
BrowserCam is one-of-its-kind non-AJAX web-based highly commercial screenshot service that supports various browser versions like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome as well as Operating Systems like OS X and Linux. Unlike BrowserShots, it is the most cheapest plan considerably available at a cost $159.80/year.
Litmus
Litmus - web-based screenshot service used for checking accessibility of web pages and considerably support 23 browser versions and operating system such as IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera, Flock, Camino, SeaMonkey and Netscape. The major disadvantage of Litmus is that it does not support scrolling.
From above hard-core discussion on different cross browser testing tool and services, one can simply conclude that all applications comes with its own advantages and disadvantages. Finally, its users choice with web service and application they want to go depending upon need and budget.
