Okay, so we are all guilty of it. We put up Web sites, pages, or even that occasional quick edit that gets us in trouble without testing it in Browser X. It’s time to get serious about testing.
So, it’s a given that the majority of those people browsing a Web site will be using Internet Explorer. Until recently the vast majority were specifically IE6. With version 7 of Internet Explorer, it becomes a bit of a different beast. This is because of some significant changes in how IE7 will render x/html compliant pages.
So you need to test in IE6 and 7. This isn’t easy, and IE7 is only available for Windows XP, and Vista. IE6 won’t be available for Vista. What are you to do? Well there is BrowserCam. BrowserCam is a service that allows you to test a plethora of different web browsers on different platforms. It’s a web test lab, without the dramatic cost, or overhead of maintaining this many machines, and environments.
I love my Firefox browser, however, the introduction of IE7 in the mix, and having it force-fed on XP users, and the upcoming Vista will do far more to encourage better standards compliance, and a greater need for testing. My personal suggestion is to test in Internet Explorer 6 and 7, Opera, Firefox 1.5 and 2, Safari, and Konqueror as a minimum, and BrowserCam allows you to do this.
[tags]web, development, testing, QA[/tags]