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Poor Windows Phone team. This is a symptom of the ecosystem's indifference to the windows phone platform. Browser vendors implementing hacks to trick web apps
by droopybuns 12y ago
Poor Windows Phone team.
This is a symptom of the ecosystem's indifference to the windows phone platform.
Browser vendors implementing hacks to trick web apps into presenting the right content because web developers have learned that they can't rely on the browser to render content properly.
I think there's a lesson in here about treating your ecosystem right.
- ulfw 12y agoAt least they are accepting it and acting accordingly to where they stand in terms of market share. If you have low single digits of share, this is what you need to do to keep up.
- nailer 12y agoI'd actually test on Windows Phone if they published images for Mac like they do with Desktop IE (and no, VMs inside VMs don't count). It's actually possible to run WP8 under Fusion on a Mac, but MS need to add mouse cursor support: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19402478/is-it-possible-to-run-the-windows-phone-8-simulator-directly-in-os-x/19403057#19403057 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19402478/is-it-possible-t...
- chiph 12y agoIIRC you can't run a HyperV image inside a Parallels VM because it doesn't have access to the Intel extensions it needs. You could do it via Bootcamp, though.
- randomfool 12y agoIf I remember correctly, Apple had that same exact problem in pre-iPhone and pre-Chrome days. AFAIK this was why they released Safari on Windows- to allow devs to test on Safari without requiring a mac.
- untog 12y agothey can't rely on the browser to render content properly. I actually don't think that's entirely fair to the Windows Phone team. Developers are being lazy and only testing on webkit devices.
- droopybuns 12y agoI really feel bad for the windows phone team. I totally agree- it's not their fault. IMO, it's the IE team who sewed this mess.