This is quite amazing and as its the run up to Christmas I thought I would share it with my visitors (you) even though I hate the fact that shops are getting ready, hypocritical I know. This short post isn’t about Christmas instead I have discovered browsershots.org an amazing online tool which allows you view any website under a selection of browsers, browser versions and operating systems. The following three screen shots have been generated by browser shots and are a good example of how useful it is because you can clearly see they have several computers set up which automatically set up the browser and settings before sending to the website, this means that the screenshot will be an accurate representation as it is a complete screenshot rather than a rendering of just the web page itself. Going back to the snow man its quite interesting to see how three different operating systems show up the font differently, the font being Arial Unicode MS. Of course the browser running under windows is most likely to show it correctly while Camino under osx has the most abstract looking more like a fez than a snow man. While a bit of a silly example of browsershots.org I have shown an interesting new tool and to some extent it’s ability at showing how a website appears differently on different platforms.
