Mobile cross-browser web testing

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When building websites I commonly use tools such as Browsershots to ensure that my pages looks reasonably OK in the different browsers. I am however starting to get complaints about a heap of mobile browsers running on different portable devices.

My question is simply how do one best carry out mobile cross-browser tests ? (answers that does not require me to install a ton of different mobile emulators will be preferred).

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Though not exactly what you want, I think quirksmode.org/mobile may be helpful. – Marcel Korpel
answers that does not require me to install a ton of different mobile emulators: I have bad news ... – FelipeAls
How about sticking to the standards and the good practices (like the alt-poperty of the img-tag), while checking the major browsers, and blaiming the mobile browsers when they don't render stuff right? – Jasper

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DeviceAnywhere can do this, but not for free.

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The answers are old. Nowadays, there are many more options. Check out "Browserstacks", or google for "alternatives to Browserstacks". Some services offer (paid) automation for testing across devices.

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http://validator.w3.org/mobile/ will provide you with several good advices, but won't provide any mobile devices' screenshots...

I'm afraid Felipe's right, the only way to know how your website interacts is to do it yourself.