Web-Graphics

Web Graphics November 5th, 2008 Contributed by Nate Steiner Testing IE locally on Mac with MAMP Pro and Parallels 7 comments have been made Something I used to do, when browser differences were almost ridiculously difficult to manage, is use the worst browser as my primary browser. Winner of the “Worst Browser” award changed hands often, but these days it’s championed by the corporately entrenched yet sorely outdated IE 6. The fastest way (for me) to test IE CSS layout and rendering issues, is every-step-of-the-way, locally, and as I build. As a Mac-based developer, my development time is greatly sped up if I can review work locally via Parallels (or some other Windows emulation). The problem: Parallels is a guest operating system, intended to have it’s own identity on your network. Locally served sites are not automatically accessible via Parallels right out of the box. The good news is that it’s not hard to make your locally served websites accessible, it’s just a matter of choosing the method that suits your needs. Unfortunately there’s a lot of information on this topic out there that doesn’t quite give a complete ...