sarah Posted February 8, 2009 Report Share Posted February 8, 2009 When testing pages for browser compatibility, do you use browser simulators like they can be found on the web? Do they really simulate well? Or is it necessary to test on the real ones to be 100% sure that things work fine? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhaslip Posted February 8, 2009 Report Share Posted February 8, 2009 Yes, yes, and yes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarah Posted February 8, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2009 Oh. But if they work, why use real browsers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhaslip Posted February 9, 2009 Report Share Posted February 9, 2009 I use real browsers to check locally while I tweak the code, after seeing something that needs fixed in the Browser shot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSW Posted February 9, 2009 Report Share Posted February 9, 2009 Firefox covers, Camino, Seamonkey, Mozilla, Netscape and on all three systems, as it is the top browser for Mac and Linux. Safari is now out for Windows and covers Mac, PC and Konqueror for Linux. Opera is used on all three systems, most used mobile browser and basis for the Wii online. So you see, if you are on PC you can do all the testing on your machine. If Mac or Linux, you will need online browser examples for IE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falkencreative Posted February 9, 2009 Report Share Posted February 9, 2009 So you see, if you are on PC you can do all the testing on your machine. If Mac or Linux, you will need online browser examples for IE. (or use something like Parallels Desktop / VMWare Fusion / Bootcamp to run Windows and access IE) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarah Posted February 9, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 9, 2009 Well, I have IE6 and IE7 running over WINE on my Linux machine. But it always seems to make everything else work slow and blocks after a while. So it is just for emergencies. So there are Linux Versions for everything not-IE? Good to know, I will have a look for them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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