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Announcing Browserling: Interactive cross-browser testing in your browser

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Re: Announcing Browserling: Interactive cross-browser testing in your browser

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What sites?

http://browsershots.org/ first one when I search for "browsers screenshots" EDIT : I can't get it to work neither on Firefox nor on Chrome. But I believe the difference is that we can click and use javascript on Ycombinator's version ? That can be usefull to test IE on a website's javascript. Eventhough using a framework like jquery should let us stop worring about that right ?

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Re: Announcing Browserling: Interactive cross-browser testing in your browser

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What sites?

http://browsershots.org/ first one when I search for "browsers screenshots" EDIT : I can't get it to work neither on Firefox nor on Chrome. But I believe the difference is that we can click and use javascript on Ycombinator's version ? That can be usefull to test IE on a website's javascript. Eventhough using a framework like jquery should let us stop worring about that right ?

As far as I can tell this uses StackVM to run multiple browsers in a VM in your browser, so it's a bit more than screenshots or testing javascript.

Re: Announcing Browserling: Interactive cross-browser testing in your browser

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What sites?

http://browsershots.org/ first one when I search for "browsers screenshots" EDIT : I can't get it to work neither on Firefox nor on Chrome. But I believe the difference is that we can click and use javascript on Ycombinator's version ? That can be usefull to test IE on a website's javascript. Eventhough using a framework like jquery should let us stop worring about that right ?

This is much more than screenshots and jQuery does not eliminate the need for interactive cross-browser testing in any way.

Re: Announcing Browserling: Interactive cross-browser testing in your browser

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Tried it out for IE6 and when the window loaded, someone else's site was up and I was unable to do anything while the counter ticked down. A bit concerning from a privacy standpoint. Maybe the machine fell over?

Something similar occurred once for me as well.

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This marks the first time I have ever enjoyed being in a queue.

This marks the first time I have ever been represented as a purple robot. The person in front of me was a dinosaur, so I think it's only fair that they got to go first.

I was a purple robot too. I wonder if you're always a purple robot.

Re: Announcing Browserling: Interactive cross-browser testing in your browser

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I just tried this, but didn't even get to use it. I entered the URL for a site I'm building, wanting to see if IE9 was going to screw me up (I'm still on WinXP), and I was sent to a queue. My only real complaint about the queue is that you give absolutely no indication of how long the expected wait time will be. This would be reasonable, except for the countdown clock, which simply read 00:00 the whole time I was wai…

I ended up on a "Loading" page during the whole 90 seconds and then was told that my time up.

Re: Announcing Browserling: Interactive cross-browser testing in your browser

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Unfortunately 2 session timeouts, one missing route error, and now my seconds are ticking down while a rather bashful robot tells me my site is loading.

Good idea though - if you can get the pricing model to a point where it's appealing to my infrequent but bursty usage (and you make it reliable), I'd definitely be interested.

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