'VMs for Mac and Linux coming soon.*'
On this page: http://www.modern.ie/virtualization-tools
Ie, no more screwing around with IEVMS and conversion scripts etc when trying to get a working copy of IE.
Alas latency makes Browserstack unusable for a lot of people.
> If you don't already, try this IE VM automated installation script: https://github.com/xdissent/ievms
I clearly do already.
and re-running the script will "sometimes" eventually work... it is the best option i know of for sure, but still not as easy as at least never been easy for me here...
First, beautifully designed page.
Second, partnering with a cool company rather than staying Microsoft-only-product.
Third, Agreeing that old browsers are a pain to deal with and providing solutions for devs.
Fourth, Agreeing that there are other OS!
Second, my site uses jQuery UI 1.10 and they suggest I update to 1.9.
Regarding web browsers, Microsoft is still sucking balls, year after year.
When I tweeted to @ie to ask why this is the case, @browserstack replied saying "Just a way to manage sign-ups especially duplicate".
How is it possible that companies like Microsoft and Browserstack, both of whom have existing "signup" functionality, and one of whom already operates an "online profile" system, require Facebook for a trial like this?
No, I do not want my music taste and photographs automatically shared with a random selection of friends, strangers, and businesses. There is a slight difference between who I am and who I want other people to think I am.
For the moment, Facebook is rapidly cornering the market. Which is too bad, in my opinion.
[1]: Random Idea: Maybe ISPs can start issuing randomly-generated cryptographic key pairs along with an IP address. This way, a particular IP + public key would be distinguishable from the next user who gets that IP address, but would not be traceable to a particular customer (not any more so than an IP by itself), and would be used only until the customer requests a new IP.
The key would provide IP address authentication ("this IP has not been assigned to someone new since the public key is the same as before.") This would all happen transparently beneath the application layer (perhaps as an extension to TCP), so existing app-layer protocols could use it OotB. Other handy features might include detecting if a machine with a static IP has had its connection interrupted since your last visit.
Each keypair could be signed using the ISP's own private key as a protection against being spoofed. Customers would be asked to choose some sort of password/phrase/favorite number/etc. as part of their service signup, which would then be used by the ISP as part of the seed for keygen system.
So you don't have to bother visiting that page.
I have minimal Windows VMs built on VMWare to test with everything from ie6 to ie9 and a Windows 8 VM to test ie10. Same for Windows Safari and Firefox. With VMWare's workstation software you, effectively, get one browser per tab (well, one vm per tab) and testing is dead simple.
This wasn't so hard to setup at all. I can even remote-desktop into the machine hosting the VM's and test from another machine. The only cost were the Windows licenses, but we use Windows already, so that wasn't too bad.
Why would one want to pay to use these services, particularly when, if I understand it correctly, they offer static images of each browser as opposed to a real-time interaction?
For instance, how long (and how much HD space!) would it take you to set up emulators for all these? http://www.browserstack.com/list-of-browsers-and-platforms (note that these are in-your-browser remote desktop sessions, essentially. some services are static images, like BrowserShots.org, some are not)
For most people, I totally agree, especially with e.g. the IEVMS script. Pretty simple, low cost, and it probably covers all the variety you need, since it's not too hard to install multiple versions of Firefox and Chrome on most OSes. But exceptions exist, and I'd be willing to bet they're relatively large (absolute) numbers.
Expecting it to get passed to the boss to check if it will be a purchase soon.
Unfortunately, it runs just under Windows.
I've used both Browserstack and Mogotest on and off the past few years and I have to admit its invaluable.
