[thelist] Suggestions for Mac test environment
Michael Barrett
mbarrett at triad.rr.com
Wed Aug 15 08:24:35 CDT 2001
One convenience of working with Mac OS 9.x and prior, is you can install
multiple versions of the same browser, on the same drive, without any system
trickery.
I would suggest you get a couple of macs, one running OS 9, and one running
OS X.
On the OS 9.1 Mac, download and install NN versions 3 through 6, and IE
versions 4 through 5, and a recent version of AOL
The install of OS 9.1 should include IE 5 and NN 4.7 with all the major
plugins pre installed.
OS X ships with IE 5.1 in beta format, with quicktime and flash 5
preinstalled. There is not a shockwave player yet for OS X.
You may want to install OmniWeb on the OS X system to really cover your
testing bases.
You can run both OS 9 and X on the same box, although you might find it
clunky as OS 9 runs in it's memory bubble in OS X, and you might find some
software (browser) behavior to be wonky.
> Hi guys and gals
>
> I'm involved in planning a frontend test environment for my workplace.
> (Test as in: "Does our websites work properly on the most common browsers?")
>
> We're aiming for NN 3/IE 3 and onwards, and we've got the pc platforms
> covered pretty well - but I need some input for the Mac platforms.
>
> Which Mac browsers would you suggest? And are there any special Mac issues
> (plugins and such) we should be aware of?
>
> Thanks in advance for your input.
-- Michael Barrett
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