Setting up a mobile testing suite | words from Cole Henley, @cole007
If you’re based anywhere near Frome in Somerset, get in touch with Cole—he’s putting together a communal device testing lab.
If you’re based anywhere near Frome in Somerset, get in touch with Cole—he’s putting together a communal device testing lab.
An oldie but a goodie: this Bagcheck blog post contains a whole bunch of useful links to lists of mobile device testing suites.
This seems like a sensible way of separating capable browsers from legacy browsers: if the browser supports querySelector, localStorage and addEventListener, you’re good to go.
An in-depth look at the BBC News mobile testing process. I think it’s great that people are sharing this kind of information.
A handy performance testing tool from Pingdom, similar to Google’s offering.
Adobe have launched their version of Weinre, the tool that allows you to refresh and debug iOS and Android browser views from your desktop computer.
A great post that discusses exactly what we mean when we talk about “supporting” different browsers.
An acid test for mobile browsers. Point your device at rng.io and it will report on how much or little mobile shininess is available.
A bookmarklet version of that handy multiple-iframe page I linked to the other day. Even more useful for testing responsive designs!
A handy little document to load pages into differently-sized iframes—useful for testing responsive designs.
This is really handy: a bookmarklet that will disable any CSS3 on a page so you can check that your fallbacks look okay.
Yes! Yes! Yes!!!
Progressive enhancement is the only sane approach to today’s massively divergent landscape of devices. It can’t be repeated often enough.
A very clever and tricksy way to sync up multiple devices so that when you refresh a URL or follow a link on one, it happens on all of them. It uses OS X’s Internet Sharing feature combined with locally-hosted Node.js. It’s positively McGyverian!
An alternative to showoff.io for sharing your locally-hosted sites.
Another browser-based tool for viewing the same site at different sizes, but this one displays them all the same time, side by side.
Another browser-based tool for testing your responsive designs at different screen sizes.
Remy created this tool for resizing a viewport to figure out where to put the breakpoints in your media queries.
A handy little service for viewing sites at different dimensions. Just be aware that it doesn’t actually emulate different devices.
Stephen and PPK are taking their two-day mobile workshop on the road, including two dates in the UK (one of which is Brighton!). There’s a welcome emphasis on testing.
Derek runs some tests on how screenreaders behave when block-level elements are wrapped in links, which is now legal in HTML5.
A nice overview of the increasing importance of UX on the web, written by Bobbie with soundbites from Andy.
This code could be useful in determining a user’s bandwidth.
All the tests and all the results, all in one place.
Monstrously beautiful images, accompanied by an eye-witness audio account.
A nice little case study in using Silverback.
A lesson from Google Buzz: a large sampling isn't always a representative sampling.
Cennydd delivers a slap of common sense to A/B testing. With science!
Hixie has been making changes to microdata in HTML5 based, not on opinion or theory, but on the results of user testing.
A very handy tool to help you check the outline algorithm in HTML5.
GSlow.
Neil explains how you can have your Safari cake and eat it.
A document outlining browser support standards for bbc.co.uk
The five second test is a simple usability test that helps you measure the effectiveness of your user interfaces.
Garrett's in-depth look at Silverback, the Mac app that we've been cooking up at Clearleft.
Excellent research into how screen readers respond to empty links (i.e. A elements with no text between the opening and closing tags).
For those times when you need to validate your markup but you don't have a 'net connection.
The YUI folks have released an add-on for Firebug that will analyse your pages and suggest ways of speeding it up.
A great hands-on article on the benefits of playing with paper.
Joe's notes make for great reading, specifically "Accessibility is a precursor to usability."
Flickr photo set, AIGA card sorting exercise.
This is the plain vanilla look.
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