Browser testing
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- johnnnnyh
What's the standard method web designers/devs are using to test multiple browsers? I'm thinking IE specific here. So IE5.5 IE6 IE7 and IE8. Do most people run Virtual Machines or have separate dev machines with these browsers installed?
Or is there some third way? At the moment I run IE6 on one machine, IE7 on another and IE 5.5 on another. I'm not sure where to go with IE8!! I'd rather do this all on one machine but I'm interested in what everyone else's set up is for this kind of testing.
- Stugoo0
personally
if your on mac use something virtual box, vmware, and have multiple set ups with a pure install on each browser.
if on pc then i use ieTester
http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/…
but like to have at hand (if possible) a stand alone machine with a real IE6 browser.you don't really need to go back to ie5.5 as its not supported (universally)
- johnnnnyh0
Appreciate the IE5.5 point - unfortunately client has a target audience of unsupported IE5.5 users! So need to at least be able to have a view what they're getting even if it's not perfect.
I'm on win XP but using a Mac PB with bootcamp. Am considering total switch to OSX - browser testing would be a good case for doing this so I'm really just trying to see what others people have set up in their offices/on their machines.
Will check out those links.
- Stugoo0
personal preference on the OS if im honest. if you go to OSX then I recommend virtual box it quite useful..
otherwise that ie tester is reliable too.unfortunate about the ie5.5 man... building for stone age must be fun!
- 23kon0
People test for Macs?!
- jamble0
I keep IE6 on a virtual machine along with a load of other browsers just for testing.
I never test for 5.5 but I guess if you have to, you could probably just look at something like http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE… and stick that on a virtual machine then all those shitty older browsers won't end up hijacking your production machine.
- elahon0
My home machine is running Mac OS 10.5 with VMWareFusion running XP and IE 7, FF3.5, Chrome and Safari 3. For further testing, I can remote into my work Mac (Chicken of the VNC) which also has VM running Vista and IE8. I can then daisy chain from THAT into the PC I have sitting there with IE6. Most of the bases are covered.
- Mojo0
IETester isn't faithful to the real thing in some areas. I used to rely on it, but it let me down. Now I rely on Crossover Office on mac to run IE6 / IE7 / Office 2007 without a VM.
- Mojo0
IE5.5? Ouch. Poor guy.