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Actually, one reason web developers can benefit from running pre-release browsers is that you are in the best position to prevent breaking changes from happenin
by mbrubeck 15y ago
Actually, one reason web developers can benefit from running pre-release browsers is that you are in the best position to prevent breaking changes from happening. If a bug that breaks your web site makes it out to the 400 million people on our stable channel, then it's too late stop your users from seeing it. But if you report the bug to the vendor when it first appears in alpha or beta, you improve the chance it will be fixed before your mainstream users ever see it.
- Silhouette 15y agoI appreciate what you're saying, but unfortunately my clients pay by the hour, and they aren't paying me to be a beta tester for your organisation. Even if I wanted to help you, it would be deeply unethical for me to do so while charging my clients for the time. And even if it weren't, please consider what a huge amount of time it would take to download and install development builds of every major browser regularly enough for this to matter. It's just not practical for me, and I don't see how it ever could be for any other professional web developer in a similar position. Maybe if we were talking about a team of in-house developers responsible for a single application or something it would be more realistic, but not for freelancers or small agencies who get paid time and materials, which seems to be most of us these days if my experience is at all representative.