[nycphp-talk] Periodic Browsercam.com group availability
CED
consult at covenantedesign.com
Wed Jun 3 23:13:00 EDT 2009
Michele Waldman wrote:
> What does this mean:
> "But you can run browsershots yourself.
>
> Great Post Artur, my CentOS box will be running this in the next ten
> minutes!"
>
> Browsershots would not let me run more more than say every 1/2 an hour. How
> can you debug a website like that. What do you tell your client? I'm
> billing you for all of the half hours while I wait for browershots to run
> again because I don't want to pay a $50 annual fee for a non restrictive
> tool?
>
> Browsershots will not let your run more than like every half an hour or so.
> I don't remember exactly, but I followed someone's suggestion tried
> browsershots and I was sorry.
>
> Join my group or not. I really don't care. I'm paying for a subscription
> either way.
>
> Margaret Michele Waldman
> Sovereign Sites L.L.C.
> Website Development
> 646-861-3375
> Rule your domain ...
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org [mailto:talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org]
>> On Behalf Of CED
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 10:23 PM
>> To: NYPHP Talk
>> Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] Periodic Browsercam.com group availability
>>
>> Michele Waldman wrote:
>>
>>> Browsershots restricts daily usage. I also paid for extended use of
>>>
>> like
>>
>>> $15. That money was out the window. I got nothing.
>>>
>>> I tried it. Then I joined browsercam.
>>>
>>> Michele
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org [mailto:talk-
>>>>
>> bounces at lists.nyphp.org]
>>
>>>> On Behalf Of Artur Marnik
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 9:50 PM
>>>> To: NYPHP Talk
>>>> Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] Periodic Browsercam.com group availability
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi Michele
>>>>
>>>> I really like what you are doing. Some tools are just to expensive for
>>>>
>> a
>>
>>>> casual programmer/designer.
>>>> But if anyone is looking for a free tool take a look at:
>>>> http://browsershots.org/ it has some ads on the page but it does the
>>>>
>> job
>>
>>>> done as well.
>>>>
>>>> Artur
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Michele Waldman wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Don't work you aren't raining on my parade. It's more like a trail of
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> tears
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> for me. (If you don't know what a trail of tears is then you can
>>>>>
>> Yahoo!
>>
>>>>> It.)
>>>>>
>>>>> I've had problems with running virtual machines on my computer. The
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> last
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> time I tried it failed on me and I didn't have more time to look into
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> it.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Using this website saves me from having a ton of more software loaded
>>>>>
>> on
>>
>>>> my
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> one overloaded ancient pc.
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't need it extensively so it's a good solution for me. If I was
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> doing
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> more heavy css testing I might have to consider something else, but it
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> fits
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> my needs of periodic testing. If you have a group subscription then
>>>>>
>> the
>>
>>>>> price is nominal.
>>>>>
>>>>> Plus, I don't test one at a time. I select many browsers at once and
>>>>>
>> in
>>
>>>>> renders them all about 15 minutes later, while I'm doing something
>>>>>
>> else.
>>
>>>>> If there's a specific problem, then I can put my attention to it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Michele
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org [mailto:talk-
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>> bounces at lists.nyphp.org]
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>> On Behalf Of David Krings
>>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 8:11 PM
>>>>>> To: NYPHP Talk
>>>>>> Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] Periodic Browsercam.com group availability
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Michele Waldman wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> on with the development. How many times have you thought, "I wonder
>>>>>>> what it looks like in IE6?" So, join a group now.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> I don't want to rain on your parade, but isn't that something a VM
>>>>>>
>> and
>>
>>>> the
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>> IE
>>>>>> package from Tredosoft can do? Does browsercam do something that the
>>>>>> regular
>>>>>> IE instances can't do? When I test browser based apps at work I have
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>> one
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>> Windows VM and a Linux VM with all the popular and not so popular
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>> browsers
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>> including IE from version 3.0 up. That covers all rendering engines
>>>>>>
>> and
>>
>>>>>> about
>>>>>> all OS (after all Mac OS X is just a window manager on top of BSD,
>>>>>>
>> but
>>
>>>> I
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>> also
>>>>>> got a Mac for testing). I recently transferred those VMs from
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>> Workstation
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> Server 2.0 so that I can run it one a different box. And with the
>>>>>>
>> free
>>
>>>>>> TechNet
>>>>>> accounts that Microsoft gives out I could even run the IEs natively
>>>>>>
>> on
>>
>>>> yet
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>> another set of VMs.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> David
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What does it mean? Oh Michele, how I've missed reading your emails...
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