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Re: Cross Browser Testing. Pick a browser, Pick an OS, Test website

#31

Post by lomo »

tonetheman wrote: post #29
lomo wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I tried it on 2 computers and 2 browsers (Firefox and Opera) and both did not work. I really would like to try CrossBrowserTesting.com on CrossBrowserTesting.com to find out on which configuration it works...

Hey. Send us some feedback on the page when it is not working. Like which session and OS you were trying to run. We will look at it. thanks for trying it!

Ubuntu + Firefox:

Blank screen and a window with this message pops up:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException at java.lang.String.String(java.lang.String) (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0) at gnu.gcjwebplugin.AppletTag.parseParamValue(java.io.StreamTokenizer) (Unknown Source) at gnu.gcjwebplugin.EmbedTag.EmbedTag(java.io.StreamTokenizer, java.net.URL, java.lang.String) (Unknown Source) at gnu.gcjwebplugin.AppletTag.parseNextTag(java.io.StreamTokenizer, java.net.URL, java.lang.String) (Unknown Source) at gnu.gcjwebplugin.PluginAppletWindow.setTag(java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String) (Unknown Source) at gnu.gcjwebplugin.PluginAppletViewer.start(java.io.InputStream, java.io.OutputStream) (Unknown Source) at gnu.gcjwebplugin.AppletViewer.main(java.lang.String[]) (Unknown Source) at gnu.java.lang.MainThread.call_main() (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0) at gnu.java.lang.MainThread.run() (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)

Ubuntu + Opera:

Blank (grey) page with a tiny thing on it saying "Java ap" and the rest cant be read.

Re: Cross Browser Testing. Pick a browser, Pick an OS, Test website

#32

Post by jeremiah »

There is definitely a need for this service. Having machines running three OSes, and a plethora of browsers, on your desktop is not yet an option. While it certainly is possible to _have_ a server farm with all these OSes, why not just let someone else maintain that nightmare? Sysadmin hell is what I call that.

The service is slow, but that will change. It "just worked" for me running OS X 10.5 with Firefox 3b5 - I didn't even check if I had Java or which version my Java was, everything went smoothly. There were some artifacts from moving the mouse, but it let me view several of my pages and gave me some good views of how others see my sites.

I think the pricing model is reasonable.

Perhaps what you can do to extend the service is allow users to pay for a set of mouse movements, record them, and run them on every OS/browser/flash combination. Then allow customers to play those files back on their own machines at their leisure, instead of doing it in real time. This would allow a web developer a way to create a 'use case' for their page, and see how it behaved across various platforms. Also, you would not have to supply so much bandwidth, just compress the results and provide them for downloading later.

I'm a little disappointed in Hacker news for the negative comments on Java. While I don't write Java, and lots of my perl colleagues dis Java, I would have thought that this Lisp-centric community would be more tolerant and agnostic when it comes to choice of programming languages. After all, it the innovation of the final result that matters, not the tools used.

I wish you luck Tony with your service, I am sure it will be a success!

Re: Cross Browser Testing. Pick a browser, Pick an OS, Test website

#33

Post by asmosoinio »

Worked for me, and seems like a great service. I will be using this in the future.

I'm working a lot with mobile phones, especially S60 Symbian stuff, so I have found Nokia RDA* very useful. I have wondered why something similar would not be available for website testing. Well, here it is!

*) http://www.forum.nokia.com/main/technical_services/testing/r...

Re: Cross Browser Testing. Pick a browser, Pick an OS, Test website

#34

Post by tonetheman »

lomo wrote: post #31
tonetheman wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey. Send us some feedback on the page when it is not working. Like which session and OS you were trying to run. We will look at it. thanks for trying it!

Ubuntu + Firefox: Blank screen and a window with this message pops up: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException at java.lang.String.String(java.lang.String) (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0) at gnu.gcjwebplugin.AppletTag.parseParamValue(java.io.StreamTokenizer) (Unknown Source) at gnu.gcjwebplugin.EmbedTag.EmbedTag(java.io.StreamTokenizer, java.net.URL, java.lang.String) (Unknown Source) at gnu.gcjwebplugin…

Thanks for trying it out. Do you have java on your machine? Go here http://javatester.org/version.html and then you can email the results to info@crossbrowsertesting.com. We really want it to work for everyone.

Thanks

Re: Cross Browser Testing. Pick a browser, Pick an OS, Test website

#35

Post by tonetheman »

jeremiah wrote: post #32

There is definitely a need for this service. Having machines running three OSes, and a plethora of browsers, on your desktop is not yet an option. While it certainly is possible to _have_ a server farm with all these OSes, why not just let someone else maintain that nightmare? Sysadmin hell is what I call that. The service is slow, but that will change. It "just worked" for me running OS X 10.5 with Firefox 3b5 - I d…

I completely understand the Java comments. For some it just works and for others not so much.

We do have some thoughts about adding the ability to record a session but that will come later we think, mac support is the next technical thing for us.

One other thing that is coming sooner rather than later is a client that we hope will help the "slowness" that you see through the java applet.

thanks again for the comments.

Re: Cross Browser Testing. Pick a browser, Pick an OS, Test website

#36

Post by aflag »

joanou wrote: post #9

No OSX support?

Yeah, there are three Windows versions and no macos :(. Does anyone even uses windows 98 these days?!

BTW, I've tried XP SP2 (base install) and win98 SE (version with ms jvm 1.1.4). Neither worked, a black screen shows then it says the login failed and says that's error 4096. It was because I had gcj plugin installed on my Debian instead of the sun plugin. It would be nice to have support to gcj, but having support to macOS is more important, I think.

Re: Cross Browser Testing. Pick a browser, Pick an OS, Test website

#37

Post by aflag »

tonetheman wrote: post #34
lomo wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ubuntu + Firefox: Blank screen and a window with this message pops up: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException at java.lang.String.String(java.lang.String) (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0) at gnu.gcjwebplugin.AppletTag.parseParamValue(java.io.StreamTokenizer) (Unknown Source) at gnu.gcjwebplugin.EmbedTag.EmbedTag(java.io.StreamTokenizer, java.net.URL, java.lang.String) (Unknown Source) at gnu.gcjwebplugin…

Thanks for trying it out. Do you have java on your machine? Go here http://javatester.org/version.html and then you can email the results to info@crossbrowsertesting.com. We really want it to work for everyone. Thanks

I think he's using gcj instead of sun's java plugin. I had the same problem here. I think it would be a nice feature to have it working on gcj (if it's at all possible, because for what I hear gcj has its limitations).

Re: Cross Browser Testing. Pick a browser, Pick an OS, Test website

#38

Post by tonetheman »

aflag wrote: post #37
tonetheman wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for trying it out. Do you have java on your machine? Go here http://javatester.org/version.html and then you can email the results to info@crossbrowsertesting.com. We really want it to work for everyone. Thanks

I think he's using gcj instead of sun's java plugin. I had the same problem here. I think it would be a nice feature to have it working on gcj (if it's at all possible, because for what I hear gcj has its limitations).

I saw the gcj references and thought the same thing. I will have to do some testing to see where the problem lies. Probably our applet does not work with gcj. We will look into it.

Re: Cross Browser Testing. Pick a browser, Pick an OS, Test website

#39

Post by tonetheman »

aflag wrote: post #36
joanou wrote: post #9

No OSX support?

Yeah, there are three Windows versions and no macos :(. Does anyone even uses windows 98 these days?! BTW, I've tried XP SP2 (base install) and win98 SE (version with ms jvm 1.1.4). Neither worked, a black screen shows then it says the login failed and says that's error 4096. It was because I had gcj plugin installed on my Debian instead of the sun plugin. It would be nice to have support to gcj, but having support t…

Yeah someone else had the same problem with gcj. I will look at it.

Re: Cross Browser Testing. Pick a browser, Pick an OS, Test website

#40

Post by aflag »

If it's just vnc and the java applet is a vnc client (as it appears), why not let the person choose which vnc client to use? That would allow for greater flexibility and less pain for the guys mantaining the service. The java client could be there only for the people who rather use it that way.
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