Browser testing
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- 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.
- 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.