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Published: 6/14/2009 | Updated: 6/14/2009 | Discuss

A fellow user group attendee pointed me to a preview of SuperPreview for Expression Web (no pun intended). Testing a web site in various browsers has been such a headache over the years! Either you had to install lots of virtual machines (I so don’t recommend running multiple versions of IE on the same box!), or use a paid service which provided you merely a static screenie of the site. Not good for debugging either way.

I gave mad props to Expression Web before. Unlike most Microsoft products, Expression Web simply rocks! But SuperPreview, if implemented as advertised, is going to be BIG. SuperPreview alone will be worth the price of admission.

To save you rehashing of that SuperPreview is capable of, take a look at Soma’s post about Expression Web 3.

I actually installed it in a virtual machine. Doubting Thomas, I am. The thing that surprised me, which Soma’s post doesn’t show, is the IE 8 > IE7 compatibility preview:

Expression Web SuperPreview

Really cool.

“…will be available this summer 2009”. Hmmm, this is going to be a good summer.

Comments

1 Andy | Monday, June 22, 2009 at 1:50 AM

Adobe are doing something similar with Dreamweaver and BrowserLab. I sadly missed the free preview accounts, but it looks rather good from what I've seen so far.

2 Abdu | Thursday, September 10, 2009 at 4:07 PM

There's a free tool called IETester which does the same.

3 Jack | Monday, October 19, 2009 at 1:37 AM

great tool! expression web is great!, here is another topic: http://jack-fx.com/csharp/post/expression-web-superpreview.htm

4 Vasya | Saturday, October 31, 2009 at 7:12 AM

If you want a similar tool which is available now take a look at BrowserSeal. It supports Firefox, Safari, IE6, IE7 and IE8.

Free trial version can be downloaded from http://www.browserseal.com

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