Comments on: Why You Don’t Skimp on QA

By: Marty

Marty — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 16:42:57 +0000

Michael – the ‘modern’ thing is something I picked up from other usability zealots, usually as a way to differentiate from IE5.x and 6.

As for cross-testing, I’ve found that BrowserCam offers a great service to see how your sites work in other browsers, although it can be kind of expensive for the freelancer ($40/month), especially if you aren’t doing a lot of new sites.

As for the Wal-Mart thing, I too was amazed at how bad it broke, particularly when it worked fairly well in Opera.

By: Apertome

Apertome — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 15:23:43 +0000

Wow, usually things don’t break *that* catastrophically across browsers. I’m actually impressed with their incompetence.

Unfortunately, the reality is that a large number of Web designers/developers only test on IE — including a coworker of mine. He has started testing on Firefox now, but he really has no idea how to implement things in a cross-browser/platform way. I use Firefox as my primary browser, and you can bet my code gets tested on everything I have access to — but my programming experience has all been with that in mind. It’s almost a cultural thing.

I like the way you call Firefox “modern,” meaning IE must be … well, something else.

By: Marty

Marty — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 02:30:46 +0000

I tested with Opera, and it actually works. It’s just Firefox that is chocking on all of that IE-specific .jsp goodness.

By: furiousball

furiousball — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 00:57:15 +0000

hahaha…idiots. I’ll have to open it up in Opera and Safari on da Mac and see how bad it looks there!