{"id":19,"date":"2010-01-04T17:51:49","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T17:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.web-design.co.za\/blog\/?p=19"},"modified":"2014-09-18T15:41:20","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T15:41:20","slug":"microsoft-expression-superpreview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.web-design.co.za\/blog\/2010\/01\/04\/microsoft-expression-superpreview\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Expression SuperPreview"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"admin\">\r\n<h5>Admin Edit<\/h5>\r\n<p>This is old news.\r\nPlease rather see the article: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.web-design.co.za\/blog\/2013\/12\/13\/browser-testing-for-multiple-ies-and-mobiles\/\" title=\"testing your website on all browsers and mobiles\">Browser \r\nTesting for Multiple IE\u2019s and Mobiles<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<h2>Cross browser friendly web design<\/h2>\r\n<p>\r\nIf you are a good web designer, you will want to make sure that your web design looks the same in all browsers.\r\n<br \/><br \/>\r\nAdhering to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">W3C standards<\/a> helps a lot in this arena, but even so, if you&#8217;ve been web designing for a while, you will have figured out by now that IE6 (Internet Explorer 6) is the bane of all web designers.\r\n<br \/><br \/>\r\nOften you will find that you can get a website to look the same in all other important browsers (IE7 &#038; 8, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Google Chrome) but you have to resort to css hacks for IE6.\r\n<br \/><br \/>\r\nTo throw another spanner in the works, you can only run one version of Internet Explorer on your machine. So that means if you want to upgrade to Windows 7, you automatically have IE8 and can&#8217;t test in IE6. Up till now, Web designers have been using various work arounds such as:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Running a dual boot PC<\/li>\r\n<li>Running a virtual PC<\/li>\r\n<li>Using screenshot generators like <a href=\"http:\/\/browsershots.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">browsershots<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>Well it seems that Microsoft themselves have now realised how retarded the whole situation is and have offered a solution and uncharacteristically, it&#8217;s free&#8230;<br \/>\r\nMicrosoft Expression SuperPreview is a stand alone application that allows you to test websites in IE6, IE7 and IE8.  It even has a nifty overlay function, so you can fix those 1 pixel discrepancies.\r\n<br \/><br \/>\r\nYou can view example screenshots and download it free here:<br \/>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/expression\/products\/Web_Overview.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/expression\/products\/Web_Overview.aspx<\/a><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cross browser friendly web design&#8230;\r\nIf you are a good web designer, you will want to make sure that your web design looks the same in all browsers.  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