Thanks for the flood of feedback :) Still, i'm sure I do smell just a little...
Taco: sorry but browsercam doesn't allow me to test forms and javascript. Other than that it rocks! Justin: I personally feel that testing the various browsers under XP is enough for Windows testing in general. I'm really looking for some hollow-tipped ammo to convince the business that testing all browsers under all of the Windows versions is unneccessary... I think your last paragraph, in regards to testing for the major audience and relying on user feedback for any issues, is the direction I am going to take with my arguments. Ben: I've got a G4 as well and it takes care of all my Mac OS needs. I'm glad to hear that the IE behaves much the same between Win OS's and I haven't been able to find any major bugs with the DOM or JS support that exist in one but not the other... Cheers, Miles. > -----Original Message----- > From: Benjamin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 11:26 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [WSG] Browser testing across Windows OS's > > > heya Miles, > > at work I have 2 computers infront of me. > > I have a pc which I do all of my interface development on. > > I also have ie5, 5.5 and 6 installed and running side by side, with > ns6.2 open. the browser that I develop in is firefox. 99% of > the time if > it works in firefox it works right across the board. Keep in > mind though > to do this you have to know each browsers little quirks when > you render > the page. > > the other computer I have is a g4 with safari, ns7, ie5.1, ie5.2, and > firefox for osx. > > like I said before develop in firefox and you will pretty much get it > looking as it should be across the range of browsers. > > I dont develop for konqeror (sp) or opera unless the clients > specifically ask for it. having said that safari is based on > konqeror (sp) > > jsut to test whether running all ie's side by side on the pc were > working as they should be I had 98 and 2000 boxen set up and > there were > no differences I could see. > > happy browser testing > > Benjamin > Life through a polaroid > > www.lifethroughapolaroid.com > > > hmm, nobody wants to help or give away their secret strategies? or > nobody does browser testing? Or do I smell? > > > > Mt. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Miles Tillinger > > > Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 4:42 PM > > > To: Web Standards Group (E-mail) > > > Subject: [WSG] Browser testing across Windows OS's > > > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I'm working on improving the site testing procedures here at > > > work. I'm trying to gauge the need to test browsers on the > > > different Windows (and other) OS's. I'm using the > > > standalone IE's under Windows XP and I'm wondering if the > > > IE5.5 standalone is behaving exactly the same as an > > > integrated IE5.5 installation on Windows 2000, ME or 98(SE)? > > > E.g. Are there any HTML, Javascript or CSS bugs that are > > > present in IE5.5 Win2k, but not IE5.5 WinXP? Same question > > > for Netscape, Mozilla and other browsers. Are they mostly > > > identical across the various OS's they support? > > > > > > Evolt.org's testing chart only includes Windows, not the > > > individual versions > > > (http://evolt.org/article/Browser_testing_list/20/548/index.ht > > ml looks rather old). Nor does it talk about different versions of > MacOS. Do WSG members consider this sufficient testing strategy? I > understand this is probably going to be very different from one > organisation to another but there has to be a baseline at least! > > > > I'm keen to hear some opinions and get some good resources > on this to > hopefully get an idea of how far I need to take our testing strategy. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Miles. > > ***************************************************** > > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > > ***************************************************** > > > > ***************************************************** > > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > > ***************************************************** > > > > > > > > ***************************************************** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > ***************************************************** > > ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help *****************************************************
