The importance of cross-browser testing
Wednesday 18th March 2009
We've all been there. We've put together a masterpiece of design (or development), which appears perfectly! Then, we open it up in [enter web browser name here] and it looks nothing like expected!
Making sure that the site works across the most used browsers is an important part in any web delivery project - even on intranets where the range of expected browsers might be limited.
As a matter of course, we always test the site in:
- Internet Explorer 6 and 7 (soon to add IE8)
- Firefox 3
- Google Chrome (latest)
- Apple Safari on PC (latest)
- Apple Safari on Mac (latest)
- Opera (latest)
We use a combination of installed browsers on different PCs and Macs, but to give us a full range of testing ability we use www.browsercam.com - not only can we see the layout of a site across hundreds of browsers, we can also login and test our websites on a huge range of browsers and operation systems.
A great article on cross-browser testing can be found on Sitepoint.