Testing your CSS for cross-browser compatability

How to test on all the OS platforms and Browsers?

[fabfurs]

How does everyone test a new layout and CSS on all the available browsers and OS platforms? I have a couple of machines... but no MAC, no Unix... so do I have to beg friends across the continent to look at the page and report back? How do they know what's missing or scewed!

There must be a better way? Is there a service that you submit the page to for a price. They run it on all their equipment, OSes and browsers taking screen shots and return the images by email?

Just validating a page doesn't cut it. How do other small "mom & pop" sites test?

[DrDoc]

There is virtually nothing you can do to test your page on all platforms and all browsers. No-one provides such a service, since it would be way too expensive. You would need a couple hundred machines to do that...

[Jbrookins]

There are some that test over a very broad range though. Services like netmechanic will take screenshots from various platforms and browsers for a small fee, though there's probably better out there now.

[Rambo Tribble]

You might wish to investigate VMware, it allows multiple OS's on one machine, including Win, Mac, Linux, Solaris. You still have to buy the OS's, though.

[fabfurs]

I tried netmechanic as per Jbrookins msg. Works great - showed pictures of 16 browsers my test CSS page was run against.

I failed miserably... now to start hacking some fixes.

[DrDoc]

Screenshots are not enough... Many bugs can not be discovered by a mere screen shot.

[Jbrookins]

yes, however it's better than nothing at all.

[DrDoc]

That's for sure ;)