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A few weeks ago I signed up to try out Olive, a web application from You Know Who. I had jumped on the hype bandwagon after following Sarah Parmenter’s tweets, and decided to take the new web application for a bit of a test drive. Whilst I had no immediate use for the web application as any client contact through my employer is done via Basecamp, and current freelance work is done face-to-face, I knew a couple of people who would be interested in such a thing.

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IETester: browser testing in Internet Explorer made easier

A handy application that I have come across recently is IETester. It pretty much says on the tin what it does; it allows you to test your website/web application in various versions of Internet Explorer; 5.5, 6, 7 and 8 beta 1.

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High Contrast mode in Windows XP

An interesting problem arose in the office yesterday. For some unknown reason background images in webpages were not appearing on one computer. The eventual cause of the problem was that the computer was running Windows XP in High Contrast mode, though it didn’t seem apparent from looking at it.

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Cross-browser, cross-platform web interface testing

I came across a really useful website earlier this week, Browsershots. Working as a Web Interface Designer it is the highest importance that everything looks shipshape across all platforms and browsers when designing websites although it isn’t always easy, accessible and affordable to do so.

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