Preview your site in IE7 and Safari on the web

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Preview your site in IE7 and Safari on the web

by David Chartier Jul 26th 2006

Preview your sites in other browsers - sans the browsers

Need to test some web design on a Mac - sans the Mac? How about making sure your CSS is ~~down~~ up to IE7's standards? Daniel Vine has produced a couple of handy solutions for you: iCapture and ieCapture, for testing how a URL looks in Safari and IE7, respectively. You submit a URL for capturing and, depending on the queue (hey, he's paying for this out of pocket), can then search for a screenshot of the site you requested. The system is a little clunky, and it offers screenshots as opposed to full-blown interactivity, but this could be pretty handy for making sure a few pages at least look the way they should. Daniel is also accepting donations for his work on these utilities, so if you start banking your web design work on them, why not pass the guy a few bucks?

Tags: CSS, design, icapture, ie, iecapture, preview, safari, screen shot, screenshot, utility, web

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