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I see some green blobs, some pricing info, and hear some marketing speak about letting my CMS be a "self-actuated change awareness system".

I want to know how I integrate this API into my tests, what exactly it tells me, and how to use it. How about a free plan to test it out? How about developer docs? How about something more than a few screenshots and a 30 second video that is incomprehensible marketroid speak?

Sorry for the harshness, but I really think visual diff tools are needed for integration testing. I want to figure out which ones are flexible and how they can be used. This site helps me do none of that.

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Harshness is fine :)

There is still more work to be done on making the service more flexible, mostly just opening up the rest of the api on my end.

How would you describe a CMS that self documents externally?

Perhaps this helps a little: http://blog.diff.io/show-hn-diff-io/ (?)

This could be used as a way to make sure a web 2.0 app hasn't got some error and lost some content... e.g. some pane is empty

Have a look at Applitools for a similar tool with advanced features

Would it find errors here? :)

https://i.imgur.com/xg3BSNs.png

Hah, sounds like I need start tweaking that theme's css. That's bad. Email matt@diff.io the device/browser/resolution?

Weirdly, I can't reproduce it now, so you either fixed it, or it was a bug on my side (browser, extension, ..?). Anyway, it was a screenshot from Opera 29 (Chromium 42) on Windows 7 with uBlock as one possibly related extension.

I got the same the first time but can't repo either

I've been getting the same kind of display errors on lots of different sites in chrome. Inline elements aren't given enough width, and then when I go to inspect them it is fixed.