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Others have already mentioned the probably slow pace of IE updates. Another thing I'll mention is that testing IE requires Windows, and I haven't worked at a pl
by btipling 14y ago
Others have already mentioned the probably slow pace of IE updates. Another thing I'll mention is that testing IE requires Windows, and I haven't worked at a place in years where anyone on my team was using Windows. Years. I've worked at Ask.com, Cloudkick, Rackspace, and now a new startup. Until I can test IE on a Mac, I wont bother to support it unless customers mention something is broken, and they rarely do. Because few use IE.
- ygra 14y agoYou may have heard of this new thing called “Virtual Machine”.
- btipling 14y agoMy development environment runs on a VM. You can't run multiple VMs on a host. I actually didn't want to reply to you because of your sarcasm. Also your comment history is very windows focused.
- ygra 14y agoThe only time I ever had problems running multiple VMs at once was when I used two different VMMs to do so. In fact, testing IE on Windows is equally painful as you need the VMs for the older versions anyway (unless you happen to have a few real machines lying around). Depending on your site's demographics you may choose to ignore IE testing, I understand. But often that demographic is rather disconnected from your own development OS so you may not always get around it. Also your comment history is very JS-focused (but how does that matter in any way?).
- btipling 14y agoMy comment history is more varied I think. My development environment runs a lot of stuff, so even if running two vm's at once were realistic, it wouldn't be.