Adobe Browserlab Updated

I do a lot of my work on my MacBook Pro and as you know not all Browsers run on a Mac. Specifically MSIE (Microsoft Internet Explorer) has not had a new release of their browser for the Mac platform since around version 5. It makes it kind of difficult when doing design changes to a website to make sure that your changes are Cross Browser when you can't install the Latest IE Browser on your Machine. You could set up VirtualBox and download one of the available images from Microsoft setting them up as a virtual machine.

Adobe BrowserLab is a flash application that is able to rend a website exactly how the different browsers render it on different platforms, for example Firefox 3.5 on windows and OS X.

Using BrowserLab you do not need to install any virtual machines or use Wine to install the different version of IE you simply point BrowserLab at the website and does the rest.

With the new update of BrowserLab you can now save the images locally allowing you to refer to them at a later date or send them to clients or colleagues.

BrowserLab is an online service, which means your site needs to be accessible online, with the one exception if you have Dreamweaver CS4, you can test your sites locally without the site having to be Internet accessible.

For a full listing of BrowserLab features visit the Browserlab site on Adobe labs

Happy Coding...