Hey guys, I just wanted to bring my grain of salt regarding IE6 users. >From my stats, over 8% of my visitors are still using IE6. In my opinion, this is too large to be ignored. Several corporate IT have not yet allowed Windows users to upgrade to IE7.
I usually keep my testing (smoke check) on IE6 as a last step in my development process. As String, I am using a virtual machine with IE6 on it (and several older browser versions). I have very rarely had to do any debugging. Most of the time, this is just the matter of a small CSS adjustment to get things look good. Once you have already pleased Firefox 3.5, Firefox 3, Firefox 2, Chrome, Safari 4, Safari 3, Internet Explorer 8 and Internet Explorer 7, this is usually just a formality to smoke check on Internet Explorer 6. :-) Jerome On Jun 23, 9:37 am, String <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jun 22, 9:49 pm, Greg Tidwell <[email protected]> wrote: > > > How do you guys debug your gadgets for IE6? > > As the other respondent said, I am mostly able to ignore IE6 these > days. I no longer proactively test on it, and although I keep an > instance of it around on a VM, I don't run it unless somebody reports > a problem - and that's not often anymore. > > Having said all that, it's easy enough to open the gadget's iframe for > debugging. In FF (or any other modern browser), right-click inside the > gadget, and tell it to open the frame in a new tab. Then you can just > copy the iframe's address into IE. From there it's basically running > standalone; there will be a few functions (like dynamic-height) that > don't work, but most things will. You should be able to set > breakpoints - either in your MS debugger, or simply with a "debugger;" > JS statement. I recommend the latter, as generated gadget line numbers > will often change from one refresh to the next. > > I also recommend the IE View plugin for FF (https://addons.mozilla.org/ > en-US/firefox/addon/35). > > String --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iGoogle Developer Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Gadgets-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
