With so many people using mobile devices to surf the web, it’s essential that you know how your website is rendering on all of these devices. The only problem is, you can’t be expected to own an iPhone, iPad, Android phone, and Kindle Fire, just to demo websites.
Here’s a great online solution that allows you to test live websites in multiple devices at once.
[To make sure you are reading this as the author intended, I would ask you to read the name of this online app with an Arnold Schwarzenegger accent. Thank you!]
The Responsinator
Simply input any live URL at the top of the page and click “GO.”
I’ve used Tom’s website as a test, since he’s running 8BIT‘s Standard 3 Preview 2 which is responsive:
As you can see, The Responsinator (are you using the accent?) demos the site in both portrait and landscape view.
Best of all, it’s interactive!
All the way up to tablet size!
I’m bookmarking this one 😉
Give The Responsinator a try!
Matthew Snider says
So I must say, it does not work as well as it could. I have pulled up many sites that do not show as they do side by side on my iPhone.
Eric Dye says
This is great for basic testing, though.
James Cooper says
All this looks like it does is show a site in a bunch of different sized iframes. So what you see is dependent of what browser you view the responsinator site in…
Granted many mobile things use webkit browsers of one sort or another – but there’s many flavours/ages of webkit engines (like my original iOS 3.1.2 iPhone is very old webkit compared to my iOS5.1 iPad…). And if you view the site in Firefox/IE (or any non webkit browser) then you’re not seeing things in webkit at all!!!
Handy for vague testing, but I wouldn’t treat it as what user will actually see!!!
Eric Dye says
Nothing beats native.
avinash says
Test your site in various devices from an iPhone and iPad, to a Kindle and on Android on the Responsivetools. It also shows your site both in portrait and landscape mode. I like this tool much more because of the outlines of the devices displayed on the page, which brings more meaning to the whole process.
Eric Dye says
Nifty! We’ll have to cover this. 🙂