Web Directions Year round learning for product, design and engineering professionals

For years, developers who needed to ensure their sites worked in a broad range of browsers had a couple of choices.

First was to run numerous browsers (and likely operating systems) for testing. Far from fun.

Some year ago, BrowserCam started making life much more pleasant, by offering this service over the web. Over time it has become a very sophisticated service that enables testing of interactive applications, and on mobile devices.

In its footsteps came BrowserShots, a free alternative.

Now Adobe enters the fray, with BrowserLab, which

provides web designers exact renderings of their web pages in multiple browsers and operating systems, on demand.

It’s still in limited release, but something you might well consider investigating.

Here’s also looking forward to the day when, at least for desktop browsers, we’ve no need for such services. In the meantime, they can be very handy.