For several months I have been keeping our web service (www.vizimarks.com) working well across a variety of platforms (Windows 2000/ME/NT/98/95, Linux and MacOS) and browsers (Mozilla/Netscape6 and MSIE5+). The service makes heavy use of javascript.
MSIE is a real pain across platforms since the implementations in MacOS and Windows are very inconsistent - many features of our service are impossible to implement in MacOS :-(. Mozilla/Netscape6 on the other hand work very consistently across platforms - as you'd expect :-). If I make a change to accomodate new 'features' in Mozilla/Netscape6 they always work first time across all the platforms I test. The only differences I have encountered are: 1. Needing different mouse handling for MacOS (no right button). 2. Cursors looking different (e.g. move cursor). 3. A slight difference in font-sizes and cursor styles. I therefore no longer do much multi-platform testing in Mozilla/Netscape6 and encourage users of MSIE on anything other than MS Windows to upgrade to Netscape 6! One last suggestion would be to look for OS specific bugs in bugzilla and determine if they are relevant to your application. Geraint Sven wrote: > Does anyone have experience with testing their apps for consistency on a > particular [more recent] version of Moz across multiple platforms > (Win/Solaris/AIX/HPUX)? > > I'm wondering how much of the code base varies across platforms and thus > how confident anyone is after testing on one platform that an app will > behave consistently on another platform? > > Cheers, Sven. > -- Vizimarks - the Internet Scrapbook! Visual Bookmarks, Online Favorites, and an Online Scrapbook. Visit http://www.vizimarks.com today.
