Just throwing that out there.

Thanks for this link. I haven’t come across this site – looks interesting – I’ll give it a whirl.

Ka kite
from Middle-earth

Have you tried the link Christy bookmarked — test your site in numerous web browsers? Obviously won’t help with areas like mouse-overs, animations, scripted html effects and links but does show appearance of pages.

Viewing in RSS feed for me is the must and I make sure that I trouble shoot plus preview well before hitting that dreaded Publish Button as it often grabs the feed faster than you can make the changes.

Thanks for these reminders! I learnt the hard way about viewing pages in different browsers.

That was in 2000 – 2001. I was writing a lot of code for elearning material that was Internet based. At that time Netscape was also to the fore – superceded by Mozilla browsers. I was luck though. I had the opportunity to examine material I’d scripted on Macs as well as PCs with all the different browsers that were available at the time.

Even the different versions of IE showed a nightmare of differentials when the same pages were viewed. The worst was when things simply didn’t appear at all on some versions! Some other things didn’t work properly on others, such as mouse-overs, animations, scripted html effects and even some links didn’t work, often if so-called dynamic html was used. I stopped using some effects altogether because of that.

I run an old version of IE and up-to-date Firefox on my home PC and have a laptop at work with a different platform (XP) running up-to-date IE and an out of date Firefox. In recent years, I haven’t had the same opportunity of viewing stuff on a Mac – I shudder at the thought!

My old version of IE is excellent for picking up bad code. I usually view a post on that browser as soon as it’s been published just to check. I also view my new posts in the RSS Reader ever since you pointed out to me that some things simply don’t show, such as video embeds – thanks for that tip.

Other minor things I notice from browser to browser and machine to machine is formatting – the line breaks and line spacings and image positions. Fortunately these differences are often not worth bothering about.

Ka kite

As usual, an excellent post.

You might want to also add an important suggestion you included in a previous piece — the importance of including the entire post in a feed, and not just have a few lines and then force people to go directly to your blog to read the rest.

How annoying!

Larry