Just the FAQs...

If you haven't noticed, there's a new item in the menu bar now. We are starting to compile a list of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) regarding CrossBrowserTesting.com. As any of you who have used the Contact Us page know, we answer all of our mail with a personalized message. We also pay attention to the comments from the Feedback form at the end of a session and respond to those as well.

After reading enough of these messages, there were some things we noticed that were not clear to many of our users. This obviously means that we need to fix our site, but we thought putting up a FAQ wouldn't hurt either. So if you don't understand something, check the FAQ, you might get lucky. ;-) Otherwise, we are always happy to take your questions on the Contact Us page.

Hopefully, you'll also see some changes on several of the pages over the next weeks as we try to make things simpler and clearer.

Thanks for reading down this far,
Mike

AOL Explorer now available

So you said you wanted Macs to test on right? You said you wanted faster response time right? So we delivered. We installed AOL Explorer as another browser for your testing. Huh?

Ok, we actually got a lot of requests to add the AOL browser, it was an obvious oversight on our part in the first place. So while all the smart developers are working on the first two items, I took some time yesterday to get AOL loaded on the WinXP configurations. This let the other developers concentrate on the Mac implementation while still letting you know that we are listening and that your comments do count. Besides, you can only play desktop tower defense or peggle for so long. (right)

I hope you find the new addition useful.

Mike

Record breaking day, Woohoo!

We had a lot of people on the site yesterday. Being at the top of Hacker News didn't have anything to do with it I am sure. ;-) We answered a ton of feedback and questions and based on those clarified some of the wording on the site. It was a fun day for all of us. We also finally got Dugg and we are also getting traffic from many other big site like reddit, though I can't find a post on there. The reddit bug hasn't changed so I'm not sure what is going on with that. I am thankful for the traffic though. Stumbleupon is also throwing a lot of traffic our way and we were up to #4 most popular on de.licio.us for a while. Hacker News sent the most referrers by far though DZone was up there too.

Today is already shaping up to be another big day. Lots of people are on and we have had a lot of people sign up since I went to bed last night at 1:00 (when things finally seemed to slow down and there were no more emails to send).

Anyway, thanks to all of you who tried us out. Thanks for leaving feedback or asking questions if you did. Finally, thanks if you helped in getting the word out about our service, we really appreciate it!

Mike

browser breaks

I saw this article on digg.com which lead me to the source.

I can verify that a lot of people are still testing IE6 (it was the top browser in our stats for the last 30 days).

No matter which browser you are having to support... you can always go to CrossBrowserTesting.com to make sense of it all.