How Good Are The BrowseEmAll Mobile Simulators? Every now and then one of my customers ask about the quality of the BrowseEmAll mobile simulators. How good is the rendering compared to real world devices? In this post I would like to show you some techniques used to develop mobile websites and a side-by-side comparison between…
4 Steps to Cross Browser Test An Existing Website In this post I’ll show you how to cross-browser test your existing website more efficiently. All 4 steps will be performed using the cross-browser testing tool BrowseEmAll. To start off your cross-browser testing we will create a quick overview for all desktop browsers to pinpoint where to investigate…
6 Steps to Reach Cross-Browser Compatibility In this article, I want to point out the 6 essential steps to reach cross-browser compatibility while not wasting more time than necessary. Ideally, you would cross-browser test your website periodically while developing it. However, you can still follow these steps to test your existing website. Step 1: Decide…
The Cross-Browser Compatibility Guide – CSS Selectors Browser Support Welcome to the third part of the cross-browser compatibility guide. CSS selectors browser support In this post I would like to show which CSS selectors are supported in the different browsers. CSS 2 Selectors CSS level 2 specification was developed by the W3C and published as…
The BrowseEmAll iPhone Simulator How do you test your website or web application on the iPhone? Especially if you don’t own one or don’t want to deploy your website to an actual web server. There are different iPhone simulators out there, like www.appetize.io or www.testiphone.com. But the results of these are rather poor and sometimes misleading. Today I…
The Cross-Browser Compatibility Guide – Which HTML Tags to Avoid Welcome to the second part of the cross-browser compatibility guide. Which HTML Tags to avoid In this post, I would like to point out some (valid) HTML-Tags to avoid while building a cross-browser website or web application. HTML 4 Every major browser supports all necessary…
How To Automate Cross-Browser Testing Today I would like to show you a great way to automate and speed up most of your cross browser testing. But before we jump right into automation lets see when it even makes sense to use automation in your cross browser testing. When to automate? Creating automation scripts and processes…
Is Cross-Browser Pixel Perfect Design Possible? Nothing puts a web developer in a bad mood faster than an angry email from a designer. The one telling you, “It doesn’t follow my Photoshop PSD design perfectly…why does it look different in IE? I wanted pixel perfect.” Pixel perfect. A polarizing term in the front-end community. Some complain…
Chrome 40: All New Features Explained On January 21 Google released the latest version of the browser Chrome: Version 40. Alongside many security fixes the update includes the minlength attribute, reportValidity function, JavaScript Service Workers and numeric literals inside JavaScript. Learn all about the relevant new features here. Form Validation: minlength Attribute In Chrome 40…
Browser-News: All You Need to Know About Firefox 34 On December the 1st Mozilla released the new version 34 of it’s flagship browser Firefox. Alongside many GUI changes and security fixes the update disables SSLv3 and implements a few new JavaScript elements like WeakSets and JavaScript Template String. Learn all about the relevant new features…