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Modern web development means not only the need to test for cross browser compatibility, but the need to test browser compatibility across multiple devices and form factors. This means testing for varied sized screens on phones, tablets, phablets (phone/tablet), and even on the desktop. Ensuring your code works consistently across the more than 300 browsers (browser versions X operating systems & devices) available today is not a task to be undertaken manually. This means you need good webpage testing tools, or you are effectively cutting off segments of your customers for whom the pages won’t load correctly. Let’s start by examining the helpful set of tools at the Modern.ie website.
Modern.ie Page Scanner
- Forgotten CSS browser prefixes
- Use of browser rather than feature detection
- Use of new HTML5 inputs
- Pre-rendering and pre-fetching assets such as images or scripts
- Responsive web design techniques
- Other common issues…
Virtual Machines
Test Versions Of IE from 6 through 11 using virtual machines that you downlord and manage in your own development enviroment.
Browser Screenshots
Get screenshots of how your site looks across nine common browser and devices.
Compatibitity Report
Analyze your site while it runs and get an automatic report of patterns of interaction known to cause issues in browser.
Site Scan
Scan For common coding problems to make sure users get the best possible exprience on your webpage.
IE testing
As a web developer, one of the first tasks you’ll need to do when you move to a new machine is work out a mechanism for testing in old versions of IE.
In the past, this may have involved some legally questionable installations of Windows XP to test in IE6, but thankfully those days are at an end with Microsoft’s modern.ie site. By heading over to the site’s virtualisation tools page, devs are able to download virtual machines that run IE6 through to IE10 across a combination of Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8.
The best part of this site is that it is not limited to Windows only users; Mac and Linux users are able to grab VM images for their platforms, too.
The site has been out for a couple of months, but today it was updated to add IE10 on Windows 7 and IE8 on Windows XP.
An offer to grab Windows 8 and Parallels Desktop 8 for Mac on a USB stick for a charity donation sold out quickly, with Microsoft saying it will be looking at future offers for developers.
As with any VM usage, make sure that you have enough RAM in the host computer to handle the requirements of the client VM and can continue using the host without hanging or spluttering on both machines.
How modern.ie works
Source : modern.ie