Have you ever visited a website only to be greeted with a friendly message similar to the one shown below?
"Sorry, you're using an incompatible web browser" shows unless it detects Internet Explorer.
Designing a website specifically for one browser is a very bad practice and blocking out users of other browsers makes it even worse. If you’re a webmaster, this is something you must avoid unless you don’t mind losing a lot of potential customers/subscribers. But how can you test a website on multiple websites?
One method would be to manually install many browsers. The other method is Browsera.
There are many different plans as well as a Free plan available, which has the limitations of having a maximum of 25 pages, no login support, and low resolution screenshots, as well as low priority testing, meaning your tests are ran after paid users.
I ran a test on Tech Airlines and 5 linked pages and the results were interesting when I used Firefox 3.5 as the “Baseline”, which is the browser that the rest is compared to. According to Browsera, Firefox 3, IE8, and Safari 4 rendered this site the same way as Firefox 3.5.
Browsera Results for TechAirlines.com
What I found interesting was that when I manually tested this site using Internet Explorer 6, the images actually did load, which isn’t what Browsera shows.
In addition, make sure your website is cross browser compatible is to ensure that the markup is valid by using the W3C Markup Validation Service.
Unfortunately, very old browsers that are still in use such as Internet Explorer 6 render many modern sites terribly including Tech Airlines. Websites should render about the same way on all modern up to date browsers, such as (at the time of writing) IE8, Firefox 3.5, and Safari 4.
Did Browsera help identify problems with cross browser compatibility with your website? What are your opinions about this service? Leave your thoughts in the comments.
Browsera – Automated Cross Browser Web Application Testing Service
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