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[nycphp-talk] Periodic Browsercam.com group availability

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Wed Jun 3 22:22:56 EDT 2009


Michele Waldman wrote:
> Browsershots restricts daily usage.  I also paid for extended use of like
> $15.  That money was out the window.  I got nothing.
>
> I tried it.  Then I joined browsercam.
>
> Michele
>
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org [mailto:talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org]
>> On Behalf Of Artur Marnik
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 9:50 PM
>> To: NYPHP Talk
>> Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] Periodic Browsercam.com group availability
>>
>>
>> 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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But you can run browsershots yourself.

Great Post Artur, my CentOS box will be running this in the next ten 
minutes!




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