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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.

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Browser Sandbox is an online platform which makes launching various browser versions possible.

It requires an installation of a plugin & can run:

• IE6-7-8
• Firefox 2-3-3.5
• Apple Safari 3-4
• Opera 9-10
• 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.

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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.

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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.

ShrinkTheWeb

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

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.

thumbalizr

A free plan exists to create website thumbnails both with & without API support. Thumbnails are watermarked with "by thumbalizr" phrase & premium plans don't have this limitation.

After signing-up, a PHP script is provided for caching the images locally for faster loads & minimum requests.

iWEBTOOL Thumbnails

A free thumbnails service for creating thumbnails of the links provided.

After inserting a JavaScript file to the webpages, system almost starts to work automatically.

There is a backlink in the thumbnails which can be removed by switching to a paid plan.

SnapCasa (project is abandoned)

A popular website thumbnail provider that has both free & paid plans.

Free plan is limited to 300,000 requests / month which is good for many websites. And, it is ad-free.

Usage is very simple, Just mention the thumbnail's parameters in the img tag & that's all. Like:

<img src="http://SnapCasa.com/Get.aspx?code=[code]&size=[size]&url=[url]" />

 artViper Website Thumbnails (project is abandoned)

This thumbnail service offers nice features in the free version like:

• Any size of thumbnails
• Subpage support
• Realtime preview & more.

A backlink is required in every page that the service is used & there are few JavaScript-Ajax tools provided to display thumbs.

thmbnl (project is abandoned)

thmbnl also provides free & paid plans. Free plan is limited to 1000 views / month.

Thumbnails are generated in 5 different sizes & codes are provided after a free membership.

Girafa (project is abandoned)

A nice service for creating URL thumbnails whose free plan is limited to 2000 views / day & does not support inner pages.

MyThumbnail (project is abandoned)

This free thumbnail generation service currently does not have a limit, supports sub-pages & any width-height can be mentioned.

Create Your Own Website Thumbnail Service

You can also create your own website thumbnail service & use it without limitations.

IECapt is a command line utility for capturing Internet Explorer's rendering of a webpage (CutyCapt for Webkit).

Using these tools, you can capture the website screenshots by executing the tool from a dynamic file (like PHP, ASP, etc.). Here are more details.

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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.

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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.

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