Bruce McCallum

…or should I say incompatibility?

Don’t you just hate spending hours working on a very neat website design to find out a few hours later that people sees something very different to what you just built? This is really frustrating, and of course there are so many variables that is hard sometimes to start troubleshooting.

Some of this difference have to do with image size, header widths, table borders and so on, but mainly are related to browsers, operating systems and screen sizes.

I’m currently running Mac OS X (my favorite) on my main computer and two virtual machines, one of them running Ubuntu Linux and the other one with Windows Vista.

My netbook is also dual boot on Windows XP and Ubuntu Remix (default boot) so this scenario allow me to test my work with Microsoft Internet explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari and Opera for all the mentioned OS. Trust me, irritating!!.

If you are going through these issues then sites such as browsershots.org may become handy although you better be patient since they run very low most of the time.

If you’ll like me to help you checking out a few sites just drop me a few lines and I’ll be glad to provide you with screenshots.