Adobe Browser Lab
Browser testing – BrowserLab from Adobe vs SuperPreview from Microsoft.
Today Adobe released their beta of BrowserLab which lets you preview a wider variety of browsers than the current beta version of SuperPreview (small images are linked to full size ones):
Previews are generated via a service which means you can preview on different operating system
- Firefox 2.0 – Windows XP
- Firefox 3.0 – Windows XP
- IE 6 – Windows XP
- IE 7 – Windows XP
- Safari – OS X
- Firefox 2.0 – OS X
- Firefox 3.0 – OS X
The benefit of using a service like BrowserLab over a locally run instance like SuperPreview does is that you can also see the color differences between OS X and Windows. Enlarge the image on the left and you will see significant differences in how the colors render.
The colors in IE 6 on Windows XP appear very washed out compared to Safari on OS X.
Both BrowserLabs and SuperPreview offer an overlay mode that lets you see how positioning maybe different between each of the browsers you are testing.
Looking at IE 6 (XP) and Safari (OS X) shows you just how quirky IE 6 can be.
What I would really like to see is the ability to test out more than a static browser view. See how rollovers work (or not). It will be interesting to see how these tools develop.