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I’ve been testing a website I design on my mac and also on windows. To be more specific mac osx snow leopard and windows 7.
Now I’m wondering if I will need to test further e.g. mac osx leopard, tiger … windows xp, windows vista?
I’ve been wondering since I started all this browser testing stuff.
Kind regards
The only browser that’s an issue IMO is IE as running multiple versions takes some setup and is not completely decoupled from the OS. The Developer Tools in IE 8/9/10 let you choose the rendering mode of earlier versions, but there are sometimes differences in the rendering between the simulated and “native” browser. Users of the other browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari) tend to upgrade quickly and in addition, even early versions of those browsers were fairly compliant (aside from CSS3 capabilities that were codified after they were released, but those usually degrade gracefully)
Great article in Smashing Magazine about setting up testing for IE using virtual machines.