Browserbeaten - what's in a name?

Why browserbeaten? Because nitwit, bit, imtest and a host of other names on blogspot were taken.

Browserbeaten also refers to the state of many web developers today. We make cool and jazzy AJAX based sites with lots of nice CSS and then the whole shebang collapses as the boss says "Why doesn't this work with Safari?" and you have to work double overtime to fix browserbugs just before release . The browser beat you.

In my view, browsers is the new portability challenge for developers. Therefore we need to find ways to test our products across a lot of browsers fast. I'm a great fan (if not always a perfect practitioner) of Test driven development (TDD).

Right now I am working on a masters thesis that tries to combine techniques from computer vision with ideas from test driven development to see if it is possible to make a tool that tests the design of a web page in different browsers.

This blog is my dumping ground for ideas, links and that I will use to develop my masters thesis.