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The main takeaway for me is the lack of testing before releasing a new major version. I know that the market is pretty fragmented between desktop and mobile, bu
by seren 11y ago
The main takeaway for me is the lack of testing before releasing a new major version. I know that the market is pretty fragmented between desktop and mobile, but you should expect that some people will access from a Windows machine. Maybe I misunderstood but it was launched without being rendered once on Windows ?
- barrkel 11y agoPresumably it was never tested in the gamut of IE versions either then, since they will most likely have been Windows VMs. This wouldn't be acceptable where I work, for one, though saying it sounds more critical than I mean.
- eterm 11y agoI'm cynical enough to believe that this was caught in testing and someone thought it would make an interesting blog post so wrote it up as if it went live.
- pcl 11y agoThis tells us that they didn't manually test Windows, or have automated tests that compared bitmaps. We don't know whether or not they ran automated tests. I'm guessing very few automated tests take font rendering into account. Although for a site that is so focused on typography, you'd hope it'd be a focal point.
- krisdol 11y agoI'd assume that there is some automated testing happening to make sure things are working, and I bet there's some manual testing too -- but I also bet that the automated testing doesn't do visual comparisons (I've never seen a company do it), and I bet that standard issue computers were macs. You visit the page on your dev computer, your phone, check Jenkins -- everything looks good, publish. Oh, but then production notices how not-good it is. It's really easy to miss these kinds of things, and the solution always seems obvious in hind-sight, otherwise clients would never find bugs.