Web Developers Rejoice!

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It's a web developers dream, and a security experts' nightmare.

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Idiot Kid
Member
Since: Sep 27, 2006


Jan 03, 2007 09:43 am

Oh...
My...
God...

Worst idea ever in my mind. I check my 'sites in firefox, opera, IE, safari, and then book up n linux and try it out on mozilla too just for safes sake.

Why would you wanna check it out in a bunch of different IE's? What happened to web developers known how crappy IE actually is?

Administrator
Since: Apr 03, 2002


Jan 03, 2007 09:58 am

How crappy it is is exactly WHY you need to check, many versions of IE are still in common use and if you have high traffic sites that require wide browser support how could you NOT rejoice at being able to test for backwards compatibility?

I for one love this tool, I don't need a bunch of machines with different IE's on each, I have them all on my workstation. SWEET!

Idiot Kid
Member
Since: Sep 27, 2006


Jan 03, 2007 01:50 pm

Eh...
My sites are all for technical people, and the basic rule of thumb for us is firefox right now.

This will be a handy tool, Im just mad that it is necessary.

Administrator
Since: Apr 03, 2002


Jan 03, 2007 01:51 pm

oh, I won't argue with you there, but it's nice to have an installer for all of them, I wish Netscape and Mozilla had tools that would install all major versions of their browsers...it'd be a testers dream just not having to go through each install...

Czar of Turd Polish
Member
Since: Jun 20, 2006


Jan 03, 2007 02:02 pm

That is nice... For the record, I like IE7.

Administrator
Since: Apr 03, 2002


Jan 03, 2007 02:03 pm

Yeah, IE7 is decent. FireFox 2 still rocks it tho.

Czar of Turd Polish
Member
Since: Jun 20, 2006


Jan 03, 2007 03:42 pm

So I've heard, I'm going for the "ignorance is bliss" approach. Although I love 3rd party apps I prefer to have just one piece of software.

Eat Spam before it eats YOU!!!
Member
Since: May 11, 2002


Jan 03, 2007 04:53 pm

roughtly 30-40% of my users at my aardvark site use firefox... ONE person uses IE4...

you have to bear in mind the "One Laptop Per Child Dilemma"... that is... US, UK, AU, and some of europe actually have nice stuff...everyone else has crap and keeps using it because it's either all they can get or all they can afford...

I mean..jeez... I run a support site for a soundcard whos manufacturer went out of business years ago and there are still people buying this thing... Vietnam and France actually had University level schools build studios around the Q10s and Win98 not too long ago...


Czar of Midi
Administrator
Since: Apr 04, 2002


Jan 03, 2007 10:18 pm

That does indeed look like a great tool. I can see that it would save a huge amount on hardware and the like.

I am as well a faithful Firefox 2.0 user and wouldn't go back. I do though use IE 7 on the studio box as I don't want the extra browser on there and it works great. Just not nearly as configurable or fast as Firefox is. But they will get there I would think.

Idiot Kid
Member
Since: Sep 27, 2006


Jan 10, 2007 09:58 am

I guess you guys are right, it is a lot easier... I used to actually install a bunch of virtual systems to test out more windows junk.

Member
Since: Nov 22, 2004


Jan 18, 2007 12:20 pm

I've been developing sites since 94 and my general rule of thumb is to support 2 or 3 previous versions. It is just too damn hard to get everything working "correctly" in say Netscape 4 or IE 4 for that 1% of people who still use it.

I test IE5.5 - 7, FF 1-2, Opera 7-9, Safari (Panther and pre-Panther versions), Mozilla and Netscape 7. Adding older obsolete browsers (IE5, NN4) just adds more headache and it depends on your target audience. It's a lot of work but after a while you get an idea of what will work in what browser although the different versions of IE can behave way different in each version.

just my 2 cents. :)

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