Posted by Ben C on 06/26/07 13:58

On 2007-06-26, Ciaran <cronoklee@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> In Firefox for Windows, there is a facility you can get to see
>> how things look in Internet Explorer for Windows. AFAIK.
>>
>
> Yeah, this is what I mean - Wouldn't it be great to have one program
> that could test your page in each browser at the same time?

Why not just a script something like:

firefox $1 &
opera $1 &
konqueror $1 &

And/or attach it to a program like urlview or Python's webbrowser
module.

> You could download new browsers and keep track of updates in each
> version of each browser. It can't be that complicated - I can't
> imagine a browser is a hugely complicated thing to code.

They are quite complicated.

> I guess the creator would have to pay for permission to use most
> browsers' source coding.

MS don't release their source code except to people like the Chinese
government.

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