Announcing RemoteIE: Test the Latest IE on Windows, Mac OS X, iOS and Android

Re:Announcing RemoteIE: Test the Latest IE on Windows, Mac O... by ecaron on Monday November 03, 2014 @02:39PM (#8552940)

Now if only Apple would do the same thing for Safari...

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Re:Announcing RemoteIE: Test the Latest IE on Windows, Mac O... by eddieroger on Monday November 03, 2014 @03:06PM (#8553118)

Or you could just run any WebKit browser on Windows.

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Re:Announcing RemoteIE: Test the Latest IE on Windows, Mac O... by acdha on Monday November 03, 2014 @03:27PM (#8553262)

1. WebKit is not created equal – if you need to test anything related to system integration (e.g. font rendering, video/audio, etc.) you need real Safari. You're also exposed to differences in the WebKit version + vendor patches.

2. That doesn't help at all if you need to test against Mac or iOS clients and want the underlying layers to match. I've found a ton of Unicode-support related issues rendering text properly which worked on Windows 7 or maybe only 8 but not OS X (or earlier versions of windows, etc.). Similar problems exist for HTML5 media playback.

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