[Engine-devel] GUI patches: verify on 2 browsers

[Andrew Cathrow]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Einav Cohen" <ecohen at redhat.com>
> To: "Andrew Cathrow" <acathrow at redhat.com>
> Cc: engine-devel at ovirt.org
> Sent: Thursday, September 6, 2012 8:14:22 AM
> Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] GUI patches: verify on 2 browsers
> 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Andrew Cathrow" <acathrow at redhat.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, September 6, 2012 1:49:38 PM
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Einav Cohen" <ecohen at redhat.com>
> > > To: "Yaniv Kaul" <ykaul at redhat.com>
> > > Cc: engine-devel at ovirt.org
> > > Sent: Thursday, September 6, 2012 3:37:08 AM
> > > Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] GUI patches: verify on 2 browsers
> > > 
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Yaniv Kaul" <ykaul at redhat.com>
> > > > Sent: Thursday, September 6, 2012 10:32:59 AM
> > > > 
> > > > On 09/06/2012 10:28 AM, Einav Cohen wrote:
> > > > > oVirt-engine developers/reviewers: oVirt-engine patches that
> > > > > involve GUI changes (i.e. web admin and/or user portal)
> > > > > *must*
> > > > > be
> > > > > verified on at least two different browsers out of the
> > > > > following:
> > > > > firefox/chrome/ie
> > > > 
> > > > What happens when it fails on Chrome? We know of several issues
> > > > with
> > > > it
> > > > already.
> > > 
> > > we will handle the already-existing chrome issues eventually.
> > > my e-mail is about not introducing any new GUI features/changes
> > > from
> > > now on that haven't been verified on at least two browsers.
> > 
> > Why not 3? Obviously that's 50% more work but saying 2 our of
> > firefox/chrome/ie doesn't make sense to me. Someone could pick to
> > test on IE and Chrome and leave something that's broken in Firefox.
> > 
> 
> Even testing on these 3 different browsers is not really enough - the
> GUI might look/behave differently even between different versions of
> FF, or between FF on Linux vs. FF on Windows.
> Testing on two browsers (instead of one) should improve compatibility
> issue detection.
> 

I think the idea of saying two browsers Firefox + one other that was made elsewhere is the right way to go.



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> > > > Y.
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> > > > >
> > > > > ----
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > Einav
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