Preview Your Website In Ie From Non-windows Os

[delivi 0]

If you are using a non-windows based OS probably Linux or Mac OS may be even Solaris or OS/2, you can preview how you website or new site design looks in Internet Explorer.

A site by Daniel Vine provides you this facility for free,

Just head over to https://www.url2png.com/?via=iecapture and enter your sites URL to preview.

This site will automatically create a screen shot of your site how it appears in IE. Usually it will take longer to get a screenshot because always there will be thousands of such sites queued to be previewed.


Post your comments and experiences.

Edited April 13, 2007 by livingston (see edit history)

[Quatrux 4]

I saw these kind of services online, where people could even choose from much more browsers, but this kind of sucks, that you need to wait so long, so I don't think that it is very useful, a bit useful, but anyway if you're designing a site, you usually need to see the changes quite fast and not wait 2000 minutes or even more than 30 minutes and even more than 1 minute.. So usually the best way is to run somekind of a virtual machine and use an existing image if it exists, so this is my opinion about these kind of services.. if it would respond in several seconds, than it might be useful, now it can be done for fun..

[xboxrulz1405241485 0]

I'd rather just install Internet Explorer 6 over WINE.xboxrulz

[Vue 0]

I would personally ask a friend over IM instead to try my site out for me. Or send them the .zip file.

 

Seriously, I wouldn't wait 2000 minutes (that's well over a day) to get a screenshot. A screenshot means hardly anything.

 

Haha, which reminds me of the saying, "Beauty is only skin deep", out of context, I know, but I thing it sorta suits. ^^

 

But if you're a really really lonely person, I suppose it wouldn't hurt to use "IE capture".