{"id":2855,"date":"2013-04-04T11:01:28","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T15:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/?p=2855"},"modified":"2013-04-04T11:07:32","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T15:07:32","slug":"microsoft-makes-browser-testing-easier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/2013\/04\/04\/microsoft-makes-browser-testing-easier\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft makes browser testing easier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a Mac guy, have been full time since 2003. One of the challenges in being a web person is always having to test in Microsoft Internet Explorer, the bane of many a web developer. We have access to PC&#8217;s here on campus, obviously, but we can&#8217;t recreate every version, operating system and quirk out there.<\/p>\n<p>Services like <del>BrowserLab<\/del> and <a href=\"http:\/\/netrenderer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">IE NetRenderer<\/a> are OK, but they only give you static images, you can&#8217;t interact with the pages or see how things like CSS and JS affect the rendering of the page.<\/p>\n<p>Other than having a PC on my desk, you can go the virtual machine route. I&#8217;ve tried this with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B008YTAKJA\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B008YTAKJA&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=arsenicnet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Parallels<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B008YTAGIK\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B008YTAGIK&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=arsenicnet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">VMWare Fusion<\/a>, but had mixed results. The other challenge was having the right number of licenses for Windows. We sometimes had them sitting around, sometimes didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, we had a report of one of our sites behaving strangely in IE. I was at home at the time, on a Mac, and couldn&#8217;t test the specific issue. I actually spun up a Microsoft Windows Server at Amazon just to test IE. It was only a few cents to do this, but took forever to wait for the EC2 server to spin up and then I had to spend the time trying to figure out how to connect to it (again, Mac guy here.)<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, Microsoft has launched a new, easy way for developers to test their sites on different versions of IE and Windows OS version, called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.modern.ie\/en-us\/virtualization-tools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Modern.IE<\/a>. They have released<br \/>\ntest versions of IE using Virtual Machines that you download and manage in your own development environment.<\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;m on a Mac, I was curious what they had to offer. They have virtual machine images (VMIs) for Parallels, Fusion and Sun&#8217;s free VirtualBox. They have VMIs for versions of IE 6 through 10 and OSes XP through Windows 8. They also offer a <a href=\"http:\/\/nodejs.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Node.js<\/a> application to do simple compatibility checks.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t just for Mac users though &#8211; they offer images for Windows and Linux users.<\/p>\n<p>Addendum: I guess <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/browserlab\/2013\/03\/13\/browserlab-is-shutting-down-on-march-13-2013\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Adobe&#8217;s BrowserLab just recently shut down<\/a>. \u00a0Bummer.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=arsenicnet&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B008YTAKJA\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the challenges in being a web person is always having to test in Microsoft Internet Explorer, the bane of many a web developer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,22],"tags":[447,528,849],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - 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