Archive for the ‘Design’ Category

Check Your Website In All Browsers And Platforms

July 12th, 2009

If you are a professional website designer, you will know the importance of achieving cross browser compatibility for your website designs. Even for people with years of experience in CSS and designing, 100% cross browser compatibility is a pain to achieve. Gone are the days when putting a label “Best viewed with Netscape” or “Best viewed with Internet Explorer” guaranteed you compatibility.

Now a days, there are dozens of browsers on hundreds of devices that need to render your website without damaging your design. It’s not possible for you to own all these devices and test your design on them one by one.  There are so many issues to test like:

  1. Screen Resolution
  2. Colour Limitations
  3. CSS rendering & hacks
  4. Frames support
  5. PNG transparency
  6. Javascript performance

So for this problem, there are 2 great tools that will help you test your site designs in dozens of browsers and platforms.

BrowserShots

BrowserShots is a great free tool which captures screenshots of your website. A number of distributed computers will open your website in their browser. Then they will make screenshots and upload them to the central server.

Step 1 - Select all the browsers you want a screenshot of.

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FireFox 3.5 allows importing of fonts from Web!

July 4th, 2009

Developers who’ve been telling their clients “XYZ font is nice but it won’t work because its not commonly available in users’ pc” can now take back their claim as FireFox 3.5 delivers you the option to import ANY font from the web IF its not available locally!

According to the release notes:

@font-face allows authors to specify online fonts to display text on their webpages. By allowing authors to provide their own fonts, @font-face eliminates the need to depend on the limited number of fonts users have installed on their computers.

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