Browser Screenshot Bonanza

Posted April 5, 2008, 3:06 p.m.

This will likely be of no interest to you unless you’re a nerd (so apologies in advance to my non-nerdy readers). As many of you know, I endeavor to make this site compatible with every major, current web browser—and even a few non-major, non-current web browsers—to ensure that you can enjoy my site no matter your platform or browser preference.

For every major revision of my site, I check it in all of the supported browsers to make sure it works as-expected. To do this, I need to run multiple desktop operating systems on my MacBook Pro (using both Parallels Desktop and Q [Mac Version of QEMU]). In addition, I check the site on two real mobile phones (running Windows Mobile 6 and Palm OS 5.4) and several phone development emulators on my computer (Apple iPhone, Blackberry, and OHA Android).

This isn’t new. What is new, however, is screenshots of the site in all supported browsers are now linked from supported browser list on the About the Site page. I only did one shot per browser, so multi-platform browsers (like Firefox) get one screenshot (usually from Mac OS X) as a representative sample. The only screenshot I couldn’t get was of Blazer in Palm OS 5.4 (the screen capture apps kept crashing the phone), so I just took a photo of the phone and cropped it down—that’s why it’s a lower quality shot than the rest.

Nerds, rejoice.

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

Quotes

Nothing is easier than to have good intentions but, without an understanding of how an economy works, good intentions can lead to counterproductive, or even disastrous, consequences for a whole nation.

Thomas Sowell

If we never suffer, we become spiritually stupid.

Peter Kreeft

The abstract kills, the concrete saves.

Sylvia Plath

Political freedom, as the Western world has known it, is only a political reading of the Bible. Religion and freedom are indivisible.

Whittaker Chambers

Prices determined in a free market are a form of free speech.

Milton Friedman

I still feel you should rock the boat. And if you’re not in it, you should turn it over. But not unthinkingly.

Maya Angelou

If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work is x, play is y, and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

I often wonder whether the politicians of the future, who are responsible for maintaining the prestige and effectiveness of their party, will not endeavor to train politicians who are at the same time propagandists.

Edward Bernays

As we are human, we can’t do what we can’t do; as we’re neurotic, we can’t do what we can.

Mignon McLaughlin

Pizza is proof that God exists.

Scott Bradford

All our rulers have said that war is unthinkable, and then we think about it almost all the time. We’ve got to make it unthinkable.

Norman Thomas

If any one teaches otherwise and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching which accords with godliness, he is puffed up with conceit, he knows nothing. . . .

Paul the Apostle

I know a man who has such a passion for proving that he will have no personal existence after death that he falls back on the position that he has no personal existence now.

G. K. Chesterton

You cannot consistently believe in the Constitution unless you also believe in the kind of society that produced it. And the kind of society that produced it was a Christian one.

Douglas Wilson

The more an owner, for his advantage, opens up his property for use by the public in general, the more do his rights become circumscribed by the statutory and constitutional rights of those who use it.

Hugo Black

A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if he knew the facts in this case.

Finley Peter Dunne

An unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses. On the lips of him who has understanding wisdom is found, but a rod is for the back of him who lacks sense.

Holy Bible

So material a difference does it make, not what ills are suffered, but what kind of man suffers them. For, stirred up with the same movement, mud exhales a horrible stench, and ointment emits a fragrant odor.

Augustine of Hippo

No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.

Bertrand Russell