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Re: Testing ALL Windows browsers on one machine

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Replying to a 1/13/1999 with very old web browsers that no one uses 
these days? :P


aaratrikasharma2@gmail.com wrote:

> 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!

> Thanks for share the post
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