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Fri, Dec 04, 2009

[Icon][Icon]A useful MS idea?

• Post categories: Omni, In The News, Technology, Programming

Have you heard about SuperPreview yet?

(Link courtesy of my brother)

On the one hand, it's a useful idea for any web dev to have a single app that shows you side-by-side views of a web page rendered by multiple browsers.

On the OTHER hand, the single biggest reason that you need to check a web page works with a multitude of browsers is that IE sucks at adhering to standards.

So.. a useful app.. that's only as useful as it is because IE is such a crap browser.

Should MS be applauded or derided for this one?

4 comments

Krazy Kitty
Comment from: Krazy Kitty [Visitor] · http://amrhaps.net/english
Derided. http://browsershots.org/ had done that for years and they can hardly be the only ones.
05/12/09 @ 01:32
Dthdealer (William)
Comment from: Dthdealer (William) [Visitor] · http://www.jbserver.com/forums/ForumHome.asp?ForumId=1
Derided. Why make a workaround instead of fixing the problem?
http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/

05/12/09 @ 04:25
sinn3r
Comment from: sinn3r [Member] Email · http://sinn3r.org/
'cause there is money out there!
06/12/09 @ 01:32
oneandoneis2
Comment from: oneandoneis2 [Member] · http://geekblog.oneandoneis2.org/
@Kitty: True, but I found it to be too slow and painful to use, being a web-based service instead of local executable.

@Dth: In fairness, although IE is the worst offender by far, other browsers DO cause occasional issues. I had one bizzare one where Safari would intermittently insert an unwanted extra row of pixels when using a specific font size, for instance...

@sinn3r: That's very cynical and also probably perfectly accurate ;o)
06/12/09 @ 10:09

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