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Many sites are not even tested on firefox

by afiori 6y ago

pbhjpbhj 6y ago
It was always hard to gauge for me how much other professionals do, presumably all professionals tests on Chrome, Edge, IE, Safari, Firefox as a minimum? It's so easy nowadays with web services to say least check first view?
- totony 6y ago
  Most apps are interactive now and are hard to test on multiple platforms (ie it takes time). Even youtube has some performance issues on different browsers.
  - boogies 6y ago
    YouTube is made by a browser maker, ie. it has a motive to make non-Chrome browsers look worse. Eg. when chromium-based Edge came out, YT served it an old version of itself for no apparent reason.
  - cxr 6y ago
    Within the past week, I wanted to check out how YouTube handles graceful degradation when browsed with something like NetSurf. Spoiler alert: it just doesn't. It wasn't that long ago that such a cavalier attitude would have been unacceptable, if not unthinkable. See https://blog.chriszacharias.com/a-conspiracy-to-kill-ie6 https://blog.chriszacharias.com/a-conspiracy-to-kill-ie6.
Shared404 6y ago
I can't understand this. I use firefox as my daily driver, but I still test in chrome and links.
- midasz 6y ago
  I also need to test on IE (since our biggest client uses it) so I have to spin up a Windows 10 VM and test it that way. Absolutely worth the time, time spent increases exponentially if a bug is found later in the process.
  - Shared404 6y ago
    > I also need to test on IE How unpleasant. Have you found that the W10 VM takes way more disk space then seems reasonable? I had to fire one up the other day, and between the VM image and the VM it took 50ish gigs of space iirc.
efreak 6y ago
Many sites are seemingly not tested at all. I recently tried to open a concert site and couldn't get any details on a concert, because their PDF viewer was buggy; I tried on both Firefox and chrome using three different computers, as well as my phone. I wish you could just use the browser's built-in PDF viewer in an iframe (or better yet, don't use PDFs in the browser)
- epse 6y ago
  You can just embed the browsers pdf viewer... It doesn't work on mobile browsers generally, but with some hacking you can get it to fall back to a download link.
- afiori 6y ago
  I get the feeling on some sites that the end goal was to have a site, not necessarily a working one.

Many sites are not even tested on firefox

by afiori 6y ago

Many sites are not even tested on firefox

It was always hard to gauge for me how much other professionals do, presumably all professionals tests on Chrome, Edge, IE, Safari, Firefox as a minimum? It's so easy nowadays with web services to say least check first view?

totony 6y ago
Most apps are interactive now and are hard to test on multiple platforms (ie it takes time). Even youtube has some performance issues on different browsers.
- boogies 6y ago
  YouTube is made by a browser maker, ie. it has a motive to make non-Chrome browsers look worse. Eg. when chromium-based Edge came out, YT served it an old version of itself for no apparent reason.
- cxr 6y ago
  Within the past week, I wanted to check out how YouTube handles graceful degradation when browsed with something like NetSurf. Spoiler alert: it just doesn't. It wasn't that long ago that such a cavalier attitude would have been unacceptable, if not unthinkable. See https://blog.chriszacharias.com/a-conspiracy-to-kill-ie6 https://blog.chriszacharias.com/a-conspiracy-to-kill-ie6.

Shared404 6y ago

I can't understand this. I use firefox as my daily driver, but I still test in chrome and links.

midasz 6y ago
I also need to test on IE (since our biggest client uses it) so I have to spin up a Windows 10 VM and test it that way. Absolutely worth the time, time spent increases exponentially if a bug is found later in the process.
- Shared404 6y ago
  > I also need to test on IE How unpleasant. Have you found that the W10 VM takes way more disk space then seems reasonable? I had to fire one up the other day, and between the VM image and the VM it took 50ish gigs of space iirc.

efreak 6y ago

Many sites are seemingly not tested at all. I recently tried to open a concert site and couldn't get any details on a concert, because their PDF viewer was buggy; I tried on both Firefox and chrome using three different computers, as well as my phone. I wish you could just use the browser's built-in PDF viewer in an iframe (or better yet, don't use PDFs in the browser)

epse 6y ago
You can just embed the browsers pdf viewer... It doesn't work on mobile browsers generally, but with some hacking you can get it to fall back to a download link.
afiori 6y ago
I get the feeling on some sites that the end goal was to have a site, not necessarily a working one.