Cross Browser check mobile devices

Short of buying the full compliment of: iPad, iPhone开发者_Go百科, android tablet and android phone(s) .... and the rest ... is there any reliable way to browser test some of these for how a website looks, particularly the ipad? I read somewhere, csstricks I think, that the ipad doesnt generally need any special treatment; is this the case.

well This wont show you how the page is rendered. But it will let you determine how a page is downloaded when a certain device browses to it.

User Agent Switcher (Firefox Plugin)

You will need the user agent that you are trying to handle for. But this is how the servers tell what device they are dealing with. This way you can customize your code to handle for certain scenarios and verify that the html is correct on the client end.

Again this will likely not display how the browser would see it. But will give you the knowledge that it did what you intended it to do. (Custom CSS or custom layout or whatever else)

As for testing on the devices, since they may all have their own little quirks the closest thing you can hope for is finding emulators for the devices you want to find out about. (and hope they accurately emulate the quirks)

There is a service that does this very thing: http://crossbrowsertesting.com/

The iPad and stock Android browsers are fairly smart about displaying content. It's not a huge deal if you can't get your hands on a device to test how it looks.

If you are trying to test a site that's specifically targets mobile devices (if it uses touch events, for example), you should probably invest in or borrow a device.

An emulator is better than nothing, however. Try the following:

• Android's SDK includes a browser
• Opera Mobile has an emulator
• Mobile Firefox also has an emulator
• To test in Opera Mini either install it on a Android virtual machine or use MicroEmulator and download the .jad file (this will also work for UCWeb).

you can try http://www.testize.com service that provides cross-devices testing for about 10 devices, iPhone 3, 4, 5; iPads and Android

They also provide you a report with discovered site issues