I regularly find myself looking at a bug in Bugzilla which reports a site not displaying the same in Mozilla as in, say, IE 5.5. At work where I have several machines running different versions of Windows and IE, I can just move over to some other machine to compare IE and Mozilla rendering. When I'm at home, though (evenings and weekends,) I only have one IE version and if my machine is booted into Linux then I have to reboot to use it.
Along comes ieCapture (found via Two Tall Socks) which will hand you a screen capture of the page as seen in IE 5.01, 5.5, 6.0, Opera 7.23, and Firefox 0.8!
This service totally rocks. If we could set up an installation at Mozilla, it might really speed up some of our bug triage. It takes about 45 seconds to return results and I don't know how much of that is network bound and how much is the actual tool and hardware speed. Maybe this tool or one very similar ot this tool running on high-end hardware with a fat pipe could return results faster.
What do you all think? Would something like this help incoming bug triage?
Posted by asa at March 21, 2004 10:52 AMOr you could just load a whole mess of different versions of IE on your home machine.
Posted by: J. Cole on March 21, 2004 06:12 PMIt would be awesome to be able to classify a bug as "rendering flaw" and have bugzilla automatically append screenies of the page in each of the different browsers. In lieu of that, it could be really useful standalone. Certainly could help on bugdays and such.
Posted by: G. Brown on March 21, 2004 06:26 PMFor Safari screenshots:
http://www.danvine.com/icapture/
They are currently only running Safari 1.2
I use it to moan and groan because Safari doesn't support min/max-height/width.
There's also a (pay-for) service, browsercam.com, intened primarily for Web designers that takes screenshots of a website on multiple browser versions on various platforms. Just thought I'd mention this since it's kinda releated.
Posted by: Robert Morris on March 21, 2004 07:20 PMAgreed.
If you can set this up on a mozilla.org server, I'm sure it would be great. If you'd prefer less hassle you can always use IE standalones
http://www.skyzyx.com/downloads/
There's another one, that has a browser with 2 windows, MSIE and gecko... See it at:
MOZiE: Gecko/MSHTML Comparison Tool
http://www.zeit.ca/mozie/