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August 14, 2009
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No to new browser unless it keeps the rendering close enough
Dam browser wars.... As a developer I am tired of running virtual machines to test a single site in ever growning list of browsers. I really agree with this articles point.Current the browsers I test...
Dam browser wars.... As a developer I am tired of running virtual machines to test a single site in ever growning list of browsers. I really agree with this articles point.
Current the browsers I test and have on my machine
Win Vista Business (SP2)
- IE8
- Chrome 2.0
- Firefox 3.5
- Safari 4.0
- Opera 9.64
- Firefox 3.0
- Firefox 2.x
- Virtual Machine (Win XP)
- IE6
- Virtual Machine (Win XP)
- IE7
Why is that a developer has to suffer at the expense of these big shots, what a average developer has to do to make a living out of a limitted bid amount or time, how can I test so many browsers and still make a profit out of a project or deliver the project on time by testing the website on each and every browser.
The sad part is when a new browser like chrome came just a year ago, the client felt the site has to support it.... no one till that point cared about how the site looked in mac or in safari...
May be I wasn't a mac fan but still its dramatically different and it's always pain to test every single page on multiple browsers.
I really support the notion of killing IE6 browser and forcing clients to upgrade because it's becoming a nuacense, when you provide people a content management system to add/edit/update they thing everything will work as magic, but it doesn't.
Take for instance copy/paste from word processor, I cannot support so many flavors of word processors and I get nightmares about copy paste of microsoft word... if only the whole online web site is online and not mix and match of desktop and online... or a better solution make everything xml complient so all we have to worry about is xsl the rendering and not about copy paste, right click left click, hot keys, F5... geezzzzzzzz....