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 Posted by Harlan Messinger on 11/05/07 14:54 
JWS wrote: 
> Harlan Messinger wrote: 
>> JWS wrote: 
>>> After my experience with putting up an applet which looked 
>>> differently in Linux, Windows, and on the Mac (and also after the 
>>> discussion about default line-height, different in Linux), I 
>>> thought: would it be possible for somebody to create a service for 
>>> Web designers in which you could enter the URL of a page, then 
>>> select the desired OS and/or browser, perhaps other parameters 
>>> like screen size, Java version, etc., and have it send back a 
>>> screenshot of how it is rendered on the selected system? Would 
>>> such a service be useful? Does it already exist, perhaps? 
>> www.browsershots.org. 
>  
> This is 'cool' .. just about like I thought it should have to be. 
> It does not work terribly well yet: 
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> -- it is a bit on the slow side, with a response time of 30 
>    minutes. 
 
Well, it's rather popular and it's processor- and network-intensive! 
 
> -- in my test the applet was invisible (although I had selected 
>    'Java enabled'). 
> -- it does not know about MATHML.
 
  
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