If you don’t frequent browsershots.org you should be aware that they have released two new and very useful features. First, you can purchase priority processing so that your screenshots are processed much faster. In addition, the source code is now available for download. If you are interested in configuring your own Browsershots environment locally, I’d highly suggest it if you are in the field of QA or HTML development.

For those of you who aren’t familiar with browsershots.org, it generates screenshots of web pages in a variety of different browsers on multiple platforms so you can ensure you visitors are seeing page designs as they are intended to be viewed.

If you have upgraded from the Apple Safari version 2.0 web browser to 3.0 here are two quick tips that developers and Q&A folks might find useful. The first tip is to turn on the built-in Web Developers Kit which is similar to the Firefox Firebug plug-in. Once you activate it (instructions are below) you can launch it by right clicking the browser window and selecting “Inspect Element.” The other tip changes the page loading progress bar (the standard filling of the address bar from left to write in blue) to a simple pie chart that fills clockwise indicating page load completion. If you wish to deactivate either of these features you can use the same instructions replacing the “-bool true” with “-bool false”

Finder->Applications->Utilities->Terminal
 
defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugUsePieProgressIndicator -bool true
defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitDeveloperExtras -bool true