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Julio Santos
Julio Santos

Reputation: 3895

Do Windows versions matter when doing browser testing?

I'm testing IE7, IE8, Safari, Chrome and Firefox.

It would be pretty less boring if you guys told me that I don't need to test for XP, Vista and 7, since there's no difference.

Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 420

Answers (3)

user1921
user1921

Reputation:

I would also test on the different operating systems due to the way fonts may render as your layout could be impacted. Here's a site with a reference of some differences.

http://www.upsdell.com/BrowserNews/res_fonts.htm

Functionality will likely not be impacted, but if you are going to have users that have those versions of the operating system you need to test on them.

Upvotes: 1

jigfox
jigfox

Reputation: 18185

There are no differences in the same Browser Version run on different Windows OS. So if you test your site in IE* on Windows Vista, it should work in XP and 7, too. And also the other ways around. But I would use at least Windows Vista, because the IE9 is coming soon, and it won't run on XP.

Upvotes: 1

bobince
bobince

Reputation: 536339

There are some differences to do with security, in particular what varieties of Windows authentication (NTLM and Kerberos over HTTP) are acceptable.

Also of course each Windows version has a different theme, which will affect what form elements look like and may trip you up if you were relying on the same pixel size of a scrollbar or something like that (a bad thing to do anyway).

Other than that, no, they're pretty much the same.

Upvotes: 1

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