OS - Code Testing

[Nathan King]

Do most web developers test their code in both Mac and Windows operating systems? I'm curious how important this is for the various languages commonly used on the web (HTML, CSS, Java, JavaScript, React, Node, PHP etc.).

Thank you

 

[olup]

Do most web developers test their code in both Mac and Windows operating systems? I'm curious how important this is for the various languages commonly used on the web (HTML, CSS, Java, JavaScript, React, Node, PHP etc.).

Thank you

yes, cross browser testing is usually an important part of developing, since you never know what browser the user is using. CSS is usually the culprit for most cross browser issues due to different rendering engines used by the different browsers. hope that answers your question.

 

[ndnsoftware]

I would recommend at the very least testing code in the main common browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer etc). I personally tend to find if my code works on the Mac version of the browser, it tends to work on the Windows variation. Although I wouldn't take that as a given.

You can download free virtual machines from Microsoft to test specifically with IE.

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/

Which is always useful if you don't have a pc handy or want to test older versions of IE.