See your site on a PC, without a PC

If you create websites, you know the trouble of getting it to look right on all browsers, especially in Internet Explorer on Windows.

Thanks to NetRenderer’s free web testing tool, you can instantly test what your site looks like in IE, without even owning a PC. Simply type in a URL, and NetRenderer will open a remote version of IE, capture a screenshot of your site, and deliver it straight to you.

IE NetRenderer allows you to check how a website is rendered by Internet Explorer 7, 6 or 5.5, as seen from a high speed datacenter located in Germany. Just type in a URL in the field above and try it out - it’s free! Unlike other screenshot services, we are able to process a large number of capturing jobs in parallel and in realtime, making it the fastest service that we know of.

From my own tests, it really is quite speedy. Because it doesn’t yet support other browsers such as Firefox, Parallels would be a better option for more robust testing.

And how about a tool to see what sites look like on a Mac, without a Mac?

via Erik Spiekermann