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 *****************************************************
