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One Browser is Not Enough

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

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NCSA Mosaic When you’re working on a website design or testing a layout, testing it in the one browser you normally use is a recipe for surprises down the road.  Your layout could be broken in Internet Explorer 7, or the JavaScript function you’re using breaks in Opera 9.  Checking your website in multiple browsers on different platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux) will help keep people on your site instead of giving them a bad first impression.

So how do you go about checking what your site looks like in IE7 when you already have IE8?  Or how do you check it on Firefox under Windows if you’re on a Mac? Let’s dive in.

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