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Re: Testing ALL Windows browsers on one machine

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On Wednesday, January 13, 1999 1:30:00 PM UTC+5:30, Jim Gouldstone wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I am developing a website which uses javascript, java, and browser plugins
> extensively.
> 
> Despite specifications, the NUMEROUS browsers always find ways of not
> working as expected, so I'd like to test with and accommodate as many
> browsers as is possible.
> 
> Problem is,
> IE 3.0, 3.01, 3.02, 4.0, etc all have their nuances.
> As do NN 3.0, 3.01, 3.01 Gold, 3.04 etc.
> 
> AFAIK, I cannot install many of these simiulatneously on the same
> machine.  They either replace one another, update files which other
> versions use, and generally 'pollute' the system.  I prefer not to keep
> installing and uninstalling versions of browsers which cannot co-exist
> because:
> 
>   a.  I want to do 'clean' installs of the various versions.  (i.e. I
> don't want previous installations of other versions to affect how the
> present one works.)
> 
>   b.  It's annoying.
> 
> 
> I'd also prefer not to keep blanking the harddrive and reinstalling the OS
> and browser.
> 
> A row of 'clean' testing machines each with very subtle browser
> differences doesn't make much sense to me, cashwise.
> 
> 
> So the plan is to get one of these new 250M zip drives, set up a machine
> which can boot from a SCSI device (i.e. the 250M zip drive), and just have
> a stack of zip disks each with Win 95, NT, or 98 on them and one or two
> coexistable? browsers installed.  Then I can boot into one of many testing
> environments on one machine.
> 
> (I prefer this to something like 'Partition Magic' because I can add an
> unlimited number of new OS/browser combinations this way.  And this just
> seems to be a clean way of doing things.)
> 
> 
> The above is a semi-informed idea and I'm simply inviting comments or
> suggestions from people who know more about it than I.
> 
> I haven't found much info on how people manage to test on the many
> different browsers simply and economically, but that could just be that
> I'm not up on the testing lingo.
> 
> Thanks for any advice!
> 
> wahey wahey
> 
> jimbones
> 
> Please reply by email, too!

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