How Do You Test Your Web Pages?

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday July 20, 2004 @06:04AM from the html-quality-assurance dept.

Pieroxy asks: "As a web developer, both professionally and personally, I try to always make sure what I write works in every browser at my disposal. When the choice came for me to choose a platform for my PC, I went the Windows route, because I cannot afford not to test IE on all those websites/applications. But now I am facing a problem with all browsers that don't have a native Windows port, such as IE5/Mac, Safari/Konqueror. kde-cygwin helped very little because the version of Konqueror shipped doesn't display most JPEG, making any testing worthless. IE5 for Mac should die soon, but is still widely used as being the default browser for so long. How do you test your web pages? Have you noticed discrepancies on how a specific engine (Gecko, Opera, KHTML) renders content on different Platforms? Do I need a Mac and a Linux machine to make sure it is working on these platforms?"

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Mac by octover · 2004-07-20 06:19 · Score: 4, Interesting

I have a PowerBook that I do my web development on. I then use Virtual PC to test the windows IE stuff. I have found that the Mozilla rendering engine on windows/mac/linux is pretty much the same, i.e. testing on one is good enough for all (granted I try and stick with writing things once and having it work everywhere so its the safer (X)HTML/CSS).