| Safari testing on Windows is "hard". For whatever reason Safari on Win can produce different outcomes than on Mac. Further I don't even have the option of running OS X in a vm unless I settle for a hackintosh. "First, the development tools available to Internet Explorer are absolute butt hole" Yes the build-in dev tools are not on par with the other browsers but I wouldn't say that Visual Studio is butt hole. I don't use it myself but as I understand it is generally acclaimed to be one of the best IDEs. If you don't want to run VS which I perfectly understand then go with MS Script debugger. It would probably bring down your number of "shit giggles" "It feels like Microsoft deliberately takes the stance of making it HARD to develop software for Internet Explorer" It feels like Apple deliberately takes the stance of making it HARD to develop software for Safari qua not providing vms. "Supporting IE is a time sink, but not just because it's "hard" to set up Windows environments," I can provide the same argument for any system which I am not familiar with. "but because Microsoft actively tries to make it hard for developers to code, test, and debug applications in Internet Explorer." From what my MS developer coworkers say they are actually quite pleased with how much MS gets involved in their development community. But that's just anecdotal I guess... "I've been developing on Mac for 4 years and haven't used Internet Explorer as an every-day browser in 7 years" Well maybe it is time to learn it again then. Lots of things have improved. What do you know - you might even make life easier for yourself... |
FYI, all browsers can and do. That happens on Firefox and Chrome as well (though maybe less regularly)