Adobe Browserlab
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An frequent issue in web design is the fact that there are a pretty huge number of browsers out there, all of which handle code “standards” in their own peculiar little way. Different operating systems offer different browsers, and somehow even ancient browsers like IE6 (10 years and still kicking!) are still a major players!
As You may understand, this causes a bit of a headache for people like me. Valid code is sometimes not enough to circumvent all quirks and bugs that exists – websites need to be tested. Setting up test environments for all possible operating systems browsers can be quite frustrating, but fortunately there are alternatives. Services like Browsershots have been around for a while, but they all suffer from the same problems – less than perfect rendering of pages, and they are awfully slow.
All except Adobe Browserlab. With Browserlab, Adobe provides an excellent service for testing webbrowsers. It may not be as good as the real thing, but the flexibility, speed and price (it’s free!) is really really hard to match!