Networkworld have featured a great article on Top 10 specialty Web browsers you may have missed.

Written by By Peter Wayner of  InfoWorld, The article focuses on a set of Great Web Browsers that are not mainstream, (i.e. Intenet Explorer, Safari, Firefox, Chrome or Opera), yet provide amazing innovations.

In the game of technological one-upmanship, the browser used to be an easy place to win. Most people used Internet Explorer, so it was simple to gain the edge by using Firefox. But now Firefox is common, and even Opera and Google Chrome are losing their cachet. Safari ships standard with every Mac, so everyone, the cool and the uncool, have it by default. They’re all excellent browsers, but they’re still the status quo. Is there anywhere else to turn for a bit of distinction?

Finding an even more obscure browser is surprisingly straightforward, and it may offer more than just the feeling of superiority that comes from beating the crowds. Many of the alternative browsers exist to solve particular problems, and the new and better features are useful to us. Sometimes it’s because we’re part of some niche like Facebook, but often it’s because our boss wants us to do something with information on the Web and the specialized browser makes it simpler.

To read this great article visit: www.networkworld.com/reviews/2010/101910-top-10-specialty-web-browsers.html?hpg1=bn

Looking for a way to see how your web creations will look on iPhone? Look no further. iPhoney gives you a pixel-accurate web browsing environment—powered by Safari—that you can use when developing web sites for iPhone. It’s the perfect 320 by 480-pixel canvas for your iPhone development. And it’s free.

iPhoney is not an iPhone simulator but instead is designed for web developers who want to create 320 by 480 (or 480 by 320) websites for use with iPhone. It gives you a canvas on which to test the visual quality of your designs. If you have questions about iPhoney, visit our issue tracker on SourceForge as our support team doesn’t provide technical support for iPhoney.

We’ve added a few handy features to iPhoney 1.2, and it is still open source so that talented developers from around the world can make it the best tool for testing iPhone-compatible web creations. What’s new in version 1.2:

* View source to see the source code for the page you’re viewing, great for checking iPhone targeted pages.
* Localized for Norwegian, French, and German users.

iPhacts.

iPhoney requires Mac OS X 10.4.7 or later. Here’s some of what you can do with iPhoney:

* Test your iPhone-enabled Web 2.0 applications and compatible web sites.
* Open any website that works with Safari (use Safari 3 beta for the most accurate experience).
* Rotate to see websites in either portrait or landscape orientation.
* Show or hide the location bar for a full-screen iPhone experience.
* Simulate the iPhone user agent, to test browser redirection scripts.
* Zoom out to see how your current pages might look while zoomed out on iPhone.
* Turn off plug-ins (including Flash, but note that they all turn off (including QuickTime).
* Automatic updates with Sparkle, s
o you’ll always know if there’s a new version.
* And of course, open source code so you can contribute to iPhoney’s rapid development.

Go to TesterTools for more detail.

practicalecommerce.com have released a video article on Testing with Different Browsers.

Test on Different Browsers

There are many widely used web browsers, including Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari, as well as dozens of mobile browsers. But, not all browsers, and versions of those browsers, work the same; and a merchant’s website may not look or function identically on each one. Thankfully, there are many browser compatibility-testing tools othe web, including a free one called Browser Shots.

To find out more read www.practicalecommerce.com/podcasts/episode/1466-Test-on-Different-Browsers