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:
>
> -- 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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