Thursday, 19 March 2009

Expression Web SuperPreview

Having a play with Web SuperPreview from good'ol Microsoft and I have to say i'm a little disappointed.

screen shot of Web SuperPreview

It very much aimed and a px by px comparison of two browsers, which in my experience is pretty much a waste of time. I've never had a support call were someone is upset about the look and feel being slightly different on a different browser.

Focusing on minor UI display differences results in designers insisting on using graphic buttons and DHTML scrollbars and code forking in the CSS in order to achieve pixel perfect adherence to the visual design on various target browsers. Not a road that I want to go down.

I think I'll be sticking to IETester and VMs, for now anyway.

Also, i may be missing something blatantly obvious but I couldn't workout how to trigger a control or even follow a link in the preview panel so couldn't inspect any dynamic page elements. I assume that's just me being a twat. The product would have no value at all if you can't interact with the page, but it's not immediately obvious how you do (well, not to me anyway!! : ).

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