Posted by JWS on 11/05/07 11:33

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:

-- it is a bit on the slow side, with a response time of 30
minutes.
-- in my test the applet was invisible (although I had selected
'Java enabled').
-- it does not know about MATHML.

But I expect it will improve. I am glad it exists.

Regards, Jan

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