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[Eddie Drapkin]

Ads? On the internet?  I figured those went away now, haven't seen 'em in a
while!

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Artur Marnik <artur at marnik.net> wrote:

>
> Hi Michele
>
> I really like what you are doing. Some tools are just to expensive for a
> casual programmer/designer.
> But if anyone is looking for a free tool take a look at:
> http://browsershots.org/ it has some ads on the page but it does the job
> done as well.
>
> Artur
>
>
>
>
>
> Michele Waldman wrote:
>
>> Don't work you aren't raining on my parade.  It's more like a trail of
>> tears
>> for me.  (If you don't know what a trail of tears is then you can Yahoo!
>> It.)
>>
>> I've had problems with running virtual machines on my computer.  The last
>> time I tried it failed on me and I didn't have more time to look into it.
>>
>> Using this website saves me from having a ton of more software loaded on
>> my
>> one overloaded ancient pc.
>>
>> I don't need it extensively so it's a good solution for me.  If I was
>> doing
>> more heavy css testing I might have to consider something else, but it
>> fits
>> my needs of periodic testing.  If you have a group subscription then the
>> price is nominal.
>>
>> Plus, I don't test one at a time.  I select many browsers at once and in
>> renders them all about 15 minutes later, while I'm doing something else.
>>
>> If there's a specific problem, then I can put my attention to it.
>>
>> Michele
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org [mailto:talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org]
>>> On Behalf Of David Krings
>>> Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 8:11 PM
>>> To: NYPHP Talk
>>> Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] Periodic Browsercam.com group availability
>>>
>>> Michele Waldman wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> on with the development.  How many times have you thought, "I wonder
>>>> what it looks like in IE6?"  So, join a group now.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I don't want to rain on your parade, but isn't that something a VM and
>>> the
>>> IE
>>> package from Tredosoft can do? Does browsercam do something that the
>>> regular
>>> IE instances can't do? When I test browser based apps at work I have one
>>> Windows VM and a Linux VM with all the popular and not so popular
>>> browsers
>>> including IE from version 3.0 up. That covers all rendering engines and
>>> about
>>> all OS (after all Mac OS X is just a window manager on top of BSD, but I
>>> also
>>> got a Mac for testing). I recently transferred those VMs from Workstation
>>> to
>>> Server 2.0 so that I can run it one a different box. And with the free
>>> TechNet
>>> accounts that Microsoft gives out I could even run the IEs natively on
>>> yet
>>> another set of VMs.
>>>
>>> David
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