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Internet Explorer Rendering |
Unfortunately, the web browsers that are rendering your creations often have different interpretations of what you are trying to achieve. For us, web developers, it is often frustrating to find that the most used browser in the world (Internet Explorer) is not keeping up with the open standards. And they never seem to implement the specific feature you are using in your scripts to create the ultimate experience for your visitors.
On top of that, each version of Internet Explorer has it's own issues that causes each and every one of them to display your website in it's own interpreted way. Often this is not the way you had in mind while using the best standard practices.
Checking how your page is being rendered in Firefox, Safari, IE 5.5, IE 6.0 and IE 7.0 can be a tedius job, especially if you are using a mac to develop on.
Behold! There is a very nice solution that can save you a lot of time!
http://www.ipinfo.info/netrenderer/
Netrenderer can create a snapshot of a website, the way it would display in each Internet Explorer version. Better yet, it can create them in layers and combine them so you can see how different your page looks in one version in respect to the others. This will enable you to determine how much of your website is presented differently in one single view.
Ofcourse... you will have to solve those issues yourself, but it's at least a conventient way to quickly check the representation and save yourself some time to do what you like best... coding!
Update:
Another useful resource could be http://www.browsershots.org/, which can render screenshots of even more browsers. Unfortunately this lacks the overlay functionality , rendering in IE 7, and it can take some time before your website is being rendered (tip provided by Left on the web) |
