test-all-the-internet-explorers

A talk by Leon Weidauer

Windows XP, IE 6 (Please, make it stop!)
Windows XP, IE 7
Windows XP, IE 8
Windows 7, IE 9
Windows 7, IE 10
Windows 8, IE 11

With about 8GB per VM that's …

On a Laptop with 128GB SSD? Seriously?

Where am I supposed to store the cat GIFs?

So, which ones do we need?

18.39% total, we can't ignore that.

Stats taken from Can I use?

Two down, four to go.

Behold: Compatibility Mode!

One VM for IE 8, 9 and 10.

Yay!

Enter IE 11

Or: "This is why we can't have nice things …"

What? There's something wrong here …

Nope! Absolutely not!

Ok, now it makes sense again.

Yes, but this is not even very interesting …

Conditional Comments

Polyfills
IE version detection
Fallbacks
Fixes

In IE 10

No longer supported in "Edge" mode
Still available in compatibility modes <=9

In IE 11

Only partly included in compatibility modes
Essentially unusable

Do NOT use IE 11 for legacy testing!

That leaves us with …

Windows 7, IE 10
Windows 7, IE 11

(Please use an actual touch device to test IE 11 on the Windows 8 touch oriented interface.)

About 8GB of space each for the VMs

Where to get the VMs?

Uh, optical disks, huh?

And where did I leave the license key again?

Remember the bear from before?

modern.ie

Used to have only VirtualPC images
Needed to be converted, very time consuming

Much better now!

Wiring things up - mDNS

We must be able to test websites on:

local server
remote server
VM server

Mac: already set up
Linux (Ubuntu)
- client: out of the box
- server: Avahi
Windows
- Bonjour Printer Services
- iTunes

NAT adapter to access remote machines

Host-only adapter to access other VMs on the same host machine

Host-only adapter also set up on the server VM.Same network name.

Wrap it all up

Make a snapshot to restore from when the image expires.

So, which ones do we need? – Behold: Compatibility Mode! – Enter IE 11

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So, which ones do we need? – Behold: Compatibility Mode! – Enter IE 11

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