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After X-Browser Testing Your Site, Is There Anything Else Really Worth Checking Guys?

by Iqball
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Hi Guys,

Ok so firstly you have used some of the well-known
following tools to Cross-Browser Check your site:

Browser Sandbox - Run any browser from the web
or
Check Browser Compatibility, Cross Platform Browser Test - Browsershots

Ok scenario snapshot of your website is looking goot for most common
browsers you have checked assiduously with above tools.

So do you just get on and put up your website?

OR...

Does it matter about testing browser displays on almost obsolete
buggy browser of IE4 or IE5? Has not the market moved on?
Is that not constituting about say 1% of market of buggy browser
users? Do we as Internet Marketers (IM) need to be concerned of testing in older browsers?

What are your opinions?

If your site is looking good for variety of common browsers do you
now further go into matter do drill down further into 'cleaning' your
website code with say the W3C validator services?

Or...again,

do you just get on and put up your website?

So Does it matter on argument that W3 Schools of Thought is only academic and
code validation is only for webdesign aimed for webdevelopers and not really general
IMs who are selling products and services to general users of the public?

What are your opinions guys? How much testing with these
tools can one do?

Again, do you just get on and put up your website because you could be testing, fine tuning into
a 'whirling coil' of complete descending madness

What do you opinions?
#checking #guys #site #worth #xbrowser
  • Profile picture of the author webatures
    I generally make sure my website is compatible according to browser statistics. See this website for the current percentage market share for browsers:

    w3schools. com / browsers / browsers_stats . asp

    Sorry I could not make the above an actual link, i'm not allowed to post links until my post count exceeds 15.

    I'm not sure if snapshots is sufficient, i've never used any of those tools. I have Chrome, firefox, IE 7/8, Safari, and Opera installed on my machine and i run my website through them to make sure it works. Some background stuff such as AJAX or Javascript can't be tested through pictures.

    I also see if my website validates against w3c, but sometimes that's really unncessary if the the site performs well under the browsers I test them with.

    HTH,
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    • Profile picture of the author Iqball
      "I also see if my website validates against w3c, but sometimes that's really unncessary if the
      site performs well under the browsers I test them with."

      @Webatures, Exactly!! That is one of my points, if overall website is looking
      goot and loading wells, then surely as IMs we must move onto
      the uploading and promoting side of things. Not getting down
      too much into validation and W3C.

      It will be interesting to see what other Warrior IMs have to say here.

      Btw thanks for the interesting Browser Market Share Link!
      (P.S. No need to put gaps in links you can still put complete link into posts, but
      without www, which actualises it and so you can highlight to colour them for reader
      benefit - you can do this until you post count allows you to post actual live links)
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  • Profile picture of the author kishor212
    Yeah Buddy, You should actually make the template FLUID and so it works easy and same on all browsers without any problems. We can say whatever browser the Guy is gonna Use.
    So its better to be prepared for all.

    Thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author VicFranks
    Depends which market "niche" your going after and how important that 1% or whatever is.. "As well as how anal you are!"

    Have you tried cruising the internet in IE 5 lately?

    For that matter, have you browsed the inet in Linx?

    Myself, I will code for backward compatibility as well as cross browser compatibility if the project calls for it.

    As well - Adobe has BrowserLab
    https://browserlab.adobe.com
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  • Profile picture of the author BobJutsu
    I test all of my sites in ie7 and 8, chrome, firefox, safari, and opera and validate them...and that's about it. That includes running through any and all functionality as necessary, not just appearance. But I test constantly while coding and writing my markup, so when I am finished all of the individual modules have been pretty thoroughly tested already, and the final debugging process is usually relatively quick and painless.

    As far as the validation goes, I rarely have markup that doesn't validate, if ever. I am anal about how I write my code so just by default it is normally valid, clean, and portable.
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    • Profile picture of the author Iqball
      @the Vic and BobJitsu
      What tools do you use guys?

      and in terms of market, say you are selling an for
      e.g. an info product.      ..

      How extensively and intensively would one test?
      If you use the tools to check site display and loading in
      main browsers as mentioned by you guys then is that not
      Green Light to get it going to upload and promote your site?
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      • Profile picture of the author BobJutsu
        Originally Posted by Iqball View Post

        @the Vic and BobJitsu
        What tools do you use guys?

        and in terms of market, say you are selling an for
        e.g. an info product...

        How extensively and intensively would one test?
        If you use the tools to check site display and loading in
        main browsers as mentioned by you guys then is that not
        Green Light to get it going to upload and promote your site?
        Tools? What tools do you need? I have a handful of browsers installed on my machine(s) that I test in, that's about it. Otherwise, just the w3c validator, and I develop everything in a plain ol' text editor (textmate, gedit, and/or sublime text depending on which machine I'm sitting at).

        I don't see how your market will have anything to do with your testing. But to be clear, I test everything constantly...I dont' wait until I think I'm done, because that is silly.

        So, if I write, say, a navigation menu I will write the markup, write the css, then write any and all functionality (scripts or script modules/functions) that act on it, and then test in all my browsers and validate. Then I'll move on and write the next small peice, etc, etc. So when I am actually done, every little part has been tested and validated individually, so there is little final testing to be done...some, but not nearly as much frustration as there would be if I waited until I was done to test/validate.

        Another thing, since we are on the subject of knowing when you are done, I plan extensively. Before I ever touch photoshop or write my first character of markup or code, I have planned all of my (initial) content, all aspects of the design, the site structure, the functionality, how I am going to code it, the logic for all of the scripting, etc, and...set a deadline. I don't add a single new feature after that point, I fix problems if they arise, but I wont make any additions, I can do that later after it is up and running if I still want to. I upload a new site on the deadline I set...period.
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