Microsoft Expression Web SuperPreview for IE Browser Testing
For web designers and webmasters, browser testing is an important and frustrating problem. In most cases, developers design for one target browser (such as IE 6) and once they’re done, they start tweaking their design to make it compatible with other browsers (such as IE, Firefox and so on).
In order to make test easy for these developers, there are many ways available before a website launched, and these include having multiple browsers and operating systems installed, running virtual machines with different configurations or using a hosted image service where a screenshot is produced for a given browser version and operating system to be used for comparison purposes.
Starting today, there’s a new way for testing browser compatibility developed by Microsoft and it’s called SuperPreview. In this article, I’ll be giving you a brief review of SuperPreview as well as comparing and listing alternate systems for testing your website designs.
“We built SuperPreview to simplify the process of testing and debugging layout issues across different web browsers and platforms. With SuperPreview you can view your pages in multiple browsers simultaneously or view how a page renders in a browser and compare it to a comp or mock-up image of a page. SuperPreview helps web site authors address an important part of that problem—namely, how to identify and fix cross-browser layout issues,” revealed Steve Guttman, product unit manager, Expression Web.
With SuperPreview, Microsoft hopes to streamline the migration of websites from older versions of Internet Explorer to IE8. Because they are tailored to a different set of standards, websites designed for a specific version of IE will be rendered erroneously in another version. This is why Microsoft has also included multiple rendering engines into IE8, allowing the browser to become compatible with older content which is not in tune with modern web standards.
Microsoft Expression Web SuperPreview is available for download here.
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