OpenDeviceLab.com tracks communal device labs

A big problem with the explosion of web-enabled devices is testing. The industry has moved far from the notion of any kind of fixed and largely ‘standard’ canvas, and new smartphones and tablets arrive daily, while other devices become web-enabled, such as televisions and games consoles. “How do you possibly own or test on all of them—you can’t,” said front-end developer Anna Debenham to .net recently. “So how do you compromise?”

Debenham at the time recommended founding or finding a local open device lab of some kind, providing the means to test your sites across devices and platforms without having to own them all. Now, OpenDeviceLab.com has risen to the challenge of assisting web designers and developers in locating and testing on a broad range of devices by serving three major goals:

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