What started as an idea in our humble office on the north side of Chicago is now available to web designers worldwide!
BrowserLab, formerly named Meer Meer, was made available for free trial download on June 2. Read the press release here.
Our principals, Charles Stevenson and Ted Billups, formed a collaboration with Joshua Hatwich and Dean Vukas in 2006 to develop a web-based experience testing tool that would streamline web designers’ cross-browser testing processes and save them thousands of dollars on hardware required to do the tasks.
Together our team worked on all facets of this nascent SaaS idea: application development, remote and scaleable hosting, branding, business models, interface design and usability, additional rich features. etc. Before we even released the beta version to the public, however, Adobe Systems learned of our application and contacted us. Making a long story shorter, we sold Meer Meer to Adobe in December of 2007. Since then, the tool has been in further development and testing for eventual launch to the public one day soon. Yesterday was that day.
If you or your web agency would like to try Adobe BrowserLab to see all the things it can do for your cross-browser testing processes, go to the Browser Lab product page here for a free trial user account. Here are a couple of sample tests we ran this first day of early release billupsdesign.com on Firefox 3.0 OS X vs. Internet Explorer 7.0 Windows XP: 2-Up and onion-skin view.
We at Billups Design are extremely proud of this application and our role in bringing it to web designers all over the world. We hope you like it too! For more information on the original Meer Meer software, please visit the case study in our Portfolio.
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Congratulations Ted and Charles. I remember getting a demo of this tool when I visited your offices a couple of years ago. It was a really smart idea, looked good, and deserved to get picked up by a great partner company like Adobe. Hope your proud of yourselves (and a little richer)!
Sean
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