My company has recently announced that it has ended support for IE7. Lets all be thankful for that. Ever since I started testing web applications, I have had one heuristic that has served me well:
'If it is going to break, it will break in IEx' - the x was originally IE6, then IE7 and now it is IE8.
The sad thing is, I actually like IE. I preferred the interfaces of 6, 7 and 8 to the minimalist style of Chrome, FF4+ and now IE9. I have used it for years, meaning I had little trouble in finding settings, since I knew the general menu layout as well as the terminology it uses.
But the fact remains that, unless I have specific reason to use another browser for testing, I have to use IE8 because any problems that are in the software that are browser related, are likely to be caused by IE incompatibility than anything else.
Interesting heristic...
ReplyDeleteAs per my experience with IE is everything works fine in IE8 but fails in IE6 and IE9 :-)