Microsoft Launches Modern.IE To Help Developers Test Their Web Apps For IE

http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/31/microsoft-launches-modern-ie-to-help-developers-test-their-web-apps-for-legacy-and-modern-versions-of-ie/

by iProject • 13 years ago

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taybenlor2• 13 years ago

Most important thing on modern.IE:

Get a free 3-month trial of Browser Stack sponsored by Microsoft. Normally you get a 15minute trial.

Just go to the Virtual Tools page.

adimania2• 13 years ago

nope. It is a 30 minute trial. :)

taybenlor2• 13 years ago

You mean normally?

judofyr2• 13 years ago

More important on modern.IE:

> The virtual machines testing platform is nearly finished. Once completed, you'll be able to easily test your site on Windows, Mac or Linux. Check back soon.

Having an official VirtualBox (I assume?) image would be great.

reybango• 13 years ago

That's the plan. :)

estel• 13 years ago

These kind of already existed: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=1157...

joshstrange• 13 years ago

There is this https://github.com/xdissent/ievms

jameswyse2• 13 years ago

> "The virtual machines testing platform is nearly finished. Once completed, you'll be able to easily test your site on Windows, Mac or Linux. Check back soon."

Very much looking forward to this!

jameswyse2• 13 years ago

The VMs are now available!

http://www.modern.ie/virtualization-tools

NiteCoder• 13 years ago

I ran one of my problem child sites through it. Modern.IE seems more interested in ensuring my pages add a bunch of crap for IE10 and Windows 8 rather than finding painful IE8 compatibility issues. This is pretty much just a marketing site for IE10.

ygra2• 13 years ago

The scan results are grouped into IE compatibility problems, potential cross-browser issues and the last option you mention. I'm not sure the former two categories qualify as marketing.

lucian1900• 13 years ago

A site for modern Ireland that is not.

[edit] I just find it odd that MS puts so much stuff on Irish domains, just because of the abbreviation. Surely they don't think they could possibly own this tld.

pdknsk3• 13 years ago

> Step 1 – Log-in with Facebook to activate your 3 month testing service.

Thanks. No.

niggler2• 13 years ago

What's with this trend of companies and startups requiring customers to sign up with Facebook? Especially for developer and technical resources, for which it seems there's a healthy level of dissociation from Facebook.

acabal• 13 years ago

What's worse is developer-level services that require Twitter to sign up, or sometimes even Github. Not all developers (see: me) have a Twitter or Github account.

nextparadigms3• 13 years ago

What is the benefit for developers anyway? They get a bit more subscribers this way? But don't they lose like almost all control over those accounts to Facebook?

jaredmcateer2• 13 years ago

The sad thing is, if you implemented OpenID you can painlessly enable sign in to your site through Google, Yahoo, the StackExchange network and a myriad of independent openid providers, but no, we're going with Facebook guys.

dschiptsov• 13 years ago

Why here? It is not even humorous.

elb0w• 13 years ago

If they really want to help developers they should patch ie7/8 so people auto update

nextparadigms3• 13 years ago

And push IE10 to XP, which is still like 40% of PC's out there.

yuhong3• 13 years ago

XP is going to end support in April 2014. I wonder how fast people are upgrading.

madaxe• 13 years ago

Fantabulous. It's not a tool for developers, it's a tool for clients to unreasonably bash developers over the head with and to market MS's substandard browsers.

Already had one email going "URGENT!!!! COMPATIBILITY ISSUES WITH IE!!!!" on a site that renders and works perfectly back to IE6.

yuhong3• 13 years ago

IE9 and later are not seriously "substandard".

ericcholis• 13 years ago

Total side notes, but I'm really enjoying this new design trend from Google and Microsoft. Clean, simple, and to the point. Helps take that "corporate" edge of Microsoft specifically.

Also I'm glad that, like Adobe, Microsoft is embracing more modern and standard practices towards web development.

nextparadigms3• 13 years ago

I think it's a little sad that the most "modern" IE Microsoft can put out is still like 2 years behind Chrome in HTML5 features. Chrome 10 had more HTML5 features 2 years ago than IE10 has today, and the Blackberry 10 browser is actually even more ahead, and that's from a company that doesn't usually make browsers:

http://html5test.com/results/desktop.html

http://html5test.com/results/mobile.html

anonymfus• 13 years ago

>and the Blackberry 10 browser is actually even more ahead, and that's from a company that doesn't usually make browsers

html5test.com does not test anything, it just checks that listed features are available. Blackberry 10 uses WebKit and they just turned on more experimental features than Chrome.

patja• 13 years ago

I've always found IETester to be a great "good enough" lightweight testing tool. No VM images to download/spin up separately or worry about expiration.

crisnoble• 13 years ago

I thought this looked okay, so I tried to get a report for hacker news: http://www.modern.ie/report#http%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycombinator.co... Result: "We encountered an error with this URL."

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