My slides for the presentation I gave on testing IE & MS Edge on OS X & Linux at SFHTML

1. Woah, I can test MS Edge &
IE on a Mac & Linux!

2. Rey
Bango
Developer Advocate & lover of Web Standards
@reybango
blog.reybango.com

11. Why can’t you kill off IE?

12. OldIE PTSD

15. Lack of feature knowledge in the community.
Our fault!

16. Standards & Features
• WebGL
• WebSockets
• CSS3 Gradients
• Blocked scoped variables
• Pointer Events
• Fullscreen API
• Device Orientation
• Flexbox
• Encrypted Media Extensions
• CSS3 Regions
• File API
• AppCache
• IndexedDB
• CSS3 Media Queries
• Canvas
• CSS3 Transforms

19. Knowledge is Power

20. Microsoft Edge Dev Portal
dev.modern.ie

21. Status Dashboard

22. http://bit.ly/iedevguides
IE Developer Guides

23. http://bit.ly/iecompatcookbook
IE Compatibility Cookbook

24. http://bit.ly/f12devtools
F12 Developer Tools

25. Why should I test for IE?

26. Netmarketshare.com

27. StatCounter.com

28. Netmarketshare.com

29. StatCounter.com

30. Free upgrade to Win10
for Win7, 8, & 8.1 users!

33. How do I test IE & Microsoft Edge?

34. Microsoft Edge Dev Portal

36. WebDriver for IE11
http://bit.ly/ie11webdriver

38. insider.windows.com

40. What about mobile?

41. WEb INspector REmote (aka weinre)
http://bit.ly/goweinre

42. http://vorlonjs.com

43. Vorlon.js
• Open source
• Extensible plugin architecture
• Platform agnostic
• Powered by Node.js and Socket.io
• New plugins
• WebAudio
• Connector for F12 debug port

44. Let’s take a look.

45. Adobe Edge Inspect
http://bit.ly/edgeinspect

46. Ghostlab
http://bit.ly/goghostlab

47. Headless?
Not yet.

48. Continuously Improving
• Leveraging virtualization (e.g: RemoteIE)
• Building tools like Vorlon.js
• Scanners to help narrow down common issue patterns
• Enhancing the F12 tools to offer great debugging
• Maintaining VMs
• Helping the enterprise move forward to modern development

49. Resources
• Microsoft Edge Portal: dev.modern.ie
• Microsoft Edge Blog: blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/
• MS Web Platform Team: @MSEdgeDev
• F12 Tools: @msedgedevtools

50. Thank you!