Monday, June 23, 2014

MICROSOFT'S MODERN.IE DEV TOOLS FOR BUILDING MODERN WEB




Microsoft last year launched the  modern.IE  as a new resource to help the developers to test websites and applications on the major version of Internet Explorer. It was a move that interest all web developers regardless of their preferred  platform of browsers. Microsoft appears to regret the pain they inflicted on web developers over years. Well this services may not be used by every developers but the company seems to have recognized developer problem and provided a number of piratical solutions.

Well let see what are the services that they offer:



FREE  VIRTUAL MACHINE IMAGES




If you're  testing a specific version of the browser , IE emulator and the F12 Developer Tools do not necessarily highlight all the problems. Ideally, you need a dedicated PC or Virtual Machine installation. The modernIE virtual tools provide free VM images for Hyper-V, Virtual PC, VirtualBox,VMware on Windows , Mac and Linux.






FREE BROWSER SCREENSHOTS



The modern.IE provides services to take Browser Screenshots of how your site looks across nine common browsers and devices


FREE BROWSERSTACK SUBSCRIPTION

BrowserStack provides dozens of desktop and mobile browsers on virtual machines which can be accessed remotely via your browser. There is nothing to install or configure just log on  and choose the platform and load your site. The service also provide tunneling facilities so you can test applications hosted on your local PC network. Microsoft have partnered with BrowserStack to bring interactive browser testing on cloud. Regardless of the platform you can test your  sites instantly from within your own browser, without any complicated setup. The Free Ad-ons for integrating BrowserStack on to Chrome and Firefox is also provided



COMPATIBILITY ADVICE




This service provide compatibility Report by analyzing your site while it runs, gives an report of patterns of interaction knowing to cause  issues in browsers. There is a 20 tips for building modern websites which contains simplest practice advice for maximizing compatibility.



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