Transformie is a lightweight (~5kb) jQuery plugin that enables you to use CSS transforms in Internet Explorer by mapping the native IE Filter API to CSS transitions as proposed by Webkit.
It supports the functions:
- rotate
- scale, scaleX, scaleY
- skew, skewX, skewY
- matrix (with the exception of the last two modifiers, tx and ty)
It works in Internet Explorer 6 + 7 and does not apply anything in other browsers.
Requirements: Query and Sylvester (included)
Compatibility: Internet Explorer 6 and 7
Browser Sandbox is an online platform which makes launching various browser versions possible.
It requires an installation of a plugin & can run:
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IE6-7-8
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Firefox 2-3-3.5
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Apple Safari 3-4
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Opera 9-10
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Google Chrome
The platform is definitely a gold mine for making cross-browser tests quickly & easily.
P.S. Spoon allows you to convert your own apps to Spoon apps & post them on the web. You can check the platform's homepage for that.
Requirements: Spoon Plugin
Expression Web SuperPreview is a visual application for debugging a website in multiple IE versions easily.
It can display a website in IE6, IE7 or IE8 side by side or as an onion-skin overlay and use rulers, guides and zoom/pan tools to precisely identify differences in layout.
Besides debugging how it is rendered in means of the look, the application also identifies the element’s:
- tag
- size and position
- applied styles
- location in the DOM (Document Object Model) treeso you can quickly fix the errors
P.S. It requires Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 to run.
Requirements: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1
Automatically created website thumbnails have a wide usage from links in a website to a web application presenting URLs with their thumbnails.
Using a website thumbnail generation service is generally a time-saving decision both for the website owner (as it'll be automated) & the visitor (for getting a better idea about the link).
Here are 10 free website thumbnail solutions including a "how to on creating your own".
Considering you'll probably use one of these services in the future, make sure you bookmark the post.
A powerful & free thumbnail service with 250,000 request limits / month & offers more limits in the paid plans.
For the free plan, no custom sizes can be mentioned & inner page thumbnails are not supported (but supports most of the popular sizes). On the other hand, the service is ad-free and works with JavaScript / Flash embed.
websnapr offers free website thumbnails & puts a "powered by websnapr" phrase over the images. There are paid plans without imitations and more features.
There are ready to use plugins for WordPress, Drupal & more that can be found here.
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IETester is a free web browser allowing you to browse websites with the JavaScript & rendering engines of IE8 beta 1, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process.
You can also find a very nice tool for Internet Explorer named Debug Bar which includes a toolbar and a development bar + a IE JavaScript debugger named Companion.js inside the same website.
Requirements: Windows Vista or Windows XP with IE7
It seems that canvas tag ( <canvas> ) will be very popular as it allows drawing graphics using scripting.
Canvas tag is supported in Firefox, Opera 9, Safari by default to allow 2D command-based drawing. But it is not supported by Internet Explorer.
ExplorerCanvas is a JavaScript that you can insert into your pages for bringing canvas functionality to Internet Explorer.
To get the ExplorerCanvas, click here.
For more details about the canvas tag, click here.
