Articles Tagged 'open source'

browsershots.org: multiple browser output

Here is the answer to the dramatic incompatibilities with different browsers currently available. Browsershots.org is a service - free and open source for now - which provides a simple way to check if a site is displayed in the same way on different platforms and different browsers.

Thanks to a small server-farm home, the authors of this useful service provide the video output of the screens generated by your web, so you can verify the correctness of the interpretation HTML / CSS on different machines and browser: PLD Linux 2.0 ( Ac), Windows 2003 (Server), Windows NT 5.1 (XP), Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) and others.

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The site is very well kept, with lots of documentation wiki, source, roadmap and timeline. . You can also view the latest screenshots, queue status-of-process and the status of the factories. The only sore, but surmountable, is the time required for the generation of screen-shot, a bit 'slow! However, it is a big help to the web developer to verify the correctness of their work, without having to install any browser and / or virtual machines to coexist - for example - Internet Explorer 6 and 7. Virtually all browsers are supported by FireFox to Safari. Interesting is the possibility of verifcare IE6 and IE7, along with versions 5.01 and 5.5.
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WEB 2.0: beta password

2006 was the year of Ajax or more specifically the so-called Web 2.0 generation. The most important was perhaps the introduction or explanation of a nova communication strategy in the Internet community. It has been revealed most efficiently tend to involve the entire Internet community, developers and end-user, looking for the "software" built to measure user.
The interesting thing is that this approach has begun to spread like wildfire, involving entities that are considered - wrongly - above all suspicion.
Adobe's initiative to establish the Adobe Labs is a glaring example of the influence of Web 2.0 on the whole Internet community. The ability to contribute to the definition of a software from the beginning is new to the "big software houses." It is certainly not new to the Open Source world that always uses the contrinuto the Internet community for the development of software and Web experiences
In open-source, however, this approach was no longer a necessity but a characteristic of open-source. The open-source software is by definition a collective collaboration.
Adobe was not the only, Microsoft, also in 2006, opened the doors of his blog dedicated to Internet Explorer 7. All have contributed to the output of the new Microsoft browser, or so - Microsoft - has made us believe.
Being able to download the beta version of Adobe CS 3 Phoptoshop is a great result. We thank the web2.0 for this, not so much to Ajax - as we know - the end is not innovitivo per se, such as technology, to the limit as an approach to Web development

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