Announcing real IEs for Browserling
catonmat.net
catonmat.net
I just want to let you know that what you're doing is awesome and I've been following it since the beginning. Browserling, from one dev to another, is a terrific implementation, and to speak to its benefits, I have used it a bunch of times because it is faster than booting up a VM for quick smoke tests. Everything has worked really well and I recommend it to everyone that mentions browser testing.
I'd love to give you money - and it sounds like you'll be offering a prepaid plan - so I'll do that as soon as it's released. If there's a mailing list please add me to it, email in profile.
We do have paid plans already, and we have over 100 customers already!
Go to https://browserling.com/ and scroll down to "pricing". The cheapest developer plan is $20, which includes real IEs, ssh tunnels, and a developer testling plan (www.testling.com - our other product).
I know, so perhaps I wasn't clear. I had mostly used browserling for quick checks in IE, rather than in depth debugging. I know that IE Tester wasn't 100% accurate with its rendering of bugs, but it was close enough to what I needed most of the time. I'm sure that getting native IE working was a huge effort and I applaud you for it, I just can't justify $20 a month for a feature I use as infrequently as I do.
One thing I actually just discovered is the API access. If they could highlight this feature and give a few tutorials on how you could write tests for websites (specifically IE breakage), I would be much more likely to pay for access to these browsers.
We've been getting a lot of requests for prepaid plans, and we'll now go ahead and add them.
I'll ping you on Twitter when we've added them!
Also take a look at our other product - Testling: www.testling.com - It's automated browser testing. It won't detect visual bugs but it's good for automated js testing in all the browsers.
thanks again man
I know you can load mshtml.dll or wherever Trident is kept nowadays into any IE shell, but the point of a service like this should be for accuracy to the original (there are a number of minor compatibility issues reported for tools which use similar workarounds, like IETester, Utilu, ...)
Then we take the desktop of the Windows virtual machine and stream it to your browser.
What you get is using a browser from a browser!
Take a look at the first demo video on www.stackvm.com to see how it works.