Re:JQuery 2.0 Drops Support for IE6/7/8; API-Compatible with...
by vidarh on Friday June 29, 2012 @09:43AM
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For 2: Any reason why your developers can't use VirtualBox with the free IE-test VM images that Microsoft provides? I don't know if the license allows them to run on a non-MS OS, but you can at the very least have several of them run on a single box and enable RDP in VirtualBox.
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Re:JQuery 2.0 Drops Support for IE6/7/8; API-Compatible with...
by alttab on Friday June 29, 2012 @10:13AM
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That "single box" needs to be able to support enough instances for our entire development team. This is more hardware and IT maintenance costs. Also, if we are doing network maintenance and wifi goes down, developers have to stop working.
The point is - even that solution costs time and money.
Re:JQuery 2.0 Drops Support for IE6/7/8; API-Compatible with...
by sgrove on Friday June 29, 2012 @01:10PM
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Sure, but why not Sauce Labs Scout + OnDemand? That was the whole reason we built it. I don't like running VM's on my machine, I prefer them to be perfectly maintained and run in the cloud.
Is there anywhere it fails to meet your teams needs? Genuinely curious if it's a product fail or a marketing problem.
Disclaimer: Used to work at Sauce Labs, not anymore.
Re:JQuery 2.0 Drops Support for IE6/7/8; API-Compatible with...
by alttab on Friday June 29, 2012 @04:09PM
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Deploying VMs to an external cloud provider for the simple task of testing a browser is very heavy handed.
Re:JQuery 2.0 Drops Support for IE6/7/8; API-Compatible with...
by vidarh on Saturday June 30, 2012 @12:45PM
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My point was that Virtualbox with the free images is still vastly cheaper than VmWare Fusion + a bunch of Windows 7 licenses.
(And your internal network is all wifi? Seriously? With designers shuffling big files around? Then you have bigger problems)