It is hard to believe that not that long ago there were only few internet browsers to choose from, when today there are literally hundreds of them. Well, the technology is developing fast and we have to deal with it. While there are so many browsers for users to choose from, the presentation of your website on each of them becomes more and more unpredictable. You can say that the majority of people use Explorer or Firefox and don’t bother about the presentation of your website on the other browsers. But a website can be performed differently in the different versions of the same browser. And do you really want the users of those other browsers to go past your website? So, how do you actually check your website’s compatibility? Install all the browsers out there and check it manually? Well, I think it’s hardly possible. For those of you who prefer their websites to be perfect everywhere I arranged a list of the best and most comfortable tools for cross-browser compatibility testing. The other thing except being easy to operate you’d love about these tools is that they can be used for free.
* CrossBrowserTesting
A very convenient tool that allows a full testing of your website’s interactivity not just in screenshots. All you have to do is to log in and select a machine with the browser and begin testing.
* BrowserShots
Awesome tool that allows testing in almost any browser you can remember. The only thing that may diasppoint you about this testing tool is that it can sometimes be rather slow.
* Litmus
Tests on all major browsers and gives you a bug report to help you correct the errors if you’ve got any. Unfortunately the free version is rather limited.
* BrowsrCamp
Tests on Safari/Mac. You’ll really like the speed of rendering screenshots.
* IETester
This completely free tool tests on every version of Internet Explorer. Just download, install and specify which IE version you’d like to browse in. The tool allows to compare two versions side-by-side.
Feel free to add more cross-browser compatibility testing tools in the comments below.