goldie opened this issue on Aug 20, 2013 · 92 posts
Fenier posted Sat, 24 August 2013 at 8:33 PM
Quote - I have to agree with Roxy and Art.... Even with my simple hobbiest website, I test every change thouroughly - in IE, Firefox, and Chrome - to make sure things are working right BEFORE I go 'live.' I know a site like Rendo is a whole different animal, but I think you are doing yourself a disservice by apparently not testing everything before going live.
I am a front end web developer, and I agree few things are as important as cross client testing.
That said.. I doubt most people realize what that means.
Desktop Operating Systems
Mobile Operating Systems
Major Desktop Clients
Major Mobile Clients
Upcoming Mobile Operating Systems
Upcoming Desktop Browsers
Now take all the preceding lists and view them at every common resolution.
Firefox & Chrome update every six weeks automatically.
Chrome OS updates about every six weeks, and Firefox OS updates every 3~ months.
Microsoft, since IE 10, has started force upgrading people. This means in October, when IE 11 is released everyone on 10 whom does not opt out will eventually be upgraded to IE 11 during one of the normal 'Patch Tuesdays'. And let me tell you, IE 11 breaks a lot of older IE hacks, and can easily break large sections of, or entire, websites.
Any company that depends on the web for income needs to have dedicated testing done for based on incoming traffic patterns. There's simply no other way to ensure everything works because there is so much variation, and you do not deploy until the testing is complete.
You are dealing with multiple platforms, code bases and rendering engines all of which were upgraded between one and six times in the past year. If you want the site to look good, you can't skip testing.
-Fenier