This video excerpt is from Bring Your Web Design to Life: Creating Rich Media Websites with Adobe Creative Suite. Copyright © 2009. Used by permission of Pearson Education, Inc., and Peachpit Press.
Every Web designer since the beginning of Web design has experienced the heartache of creating a site that renders correctly in one browser but doesn’t work in another. Back in the day, you needed a fleet of computers running different operating systems and browsers to test your site in a variety of situations. But since June 2009, we’ve had Adobe BrowserLab. This service shows you exact renderings of web pages on leading browsers and helps you find and troubleshoot browser-compatibility problems.
Initially, BrowserLab worked only with pages that were live or on a testing server. Then Adobe released a free Dreamweaver CS4 extension that, once installed, lets you test site projects on a local computer–no need to publish pages before running them through BrowserLab. That capability is now baked into Dreamweaver CS5.
In this video excerpt, you’ll learn how to test a local web page (one that’s only on your computer) using BrowserLab, and then use what you discover to fix the code that’s the cause of the browser incompatibilities.
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Bring Your Web Design to Life: Creating Rich Media Websites with Adobe Creative Suite is used with the permission of Pearson Education, Inc., and Peachpit Press. Copyright © 2009.
This article was last modified on January 18, 2023
This article was first published on July 8, 2010
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