I recently udpated our Jasmine unit tests to run in Karma ; expanding our browser coverage, adding code coverage reports , and using fixtures for testing DOM manipulation . One of my tests kept failing in IE9, but only when I ran from the console. If I attempted to debug in the browser, everything passed. It turns out that IE9 (at least) needed a few ms to catch it's breath before correctly focusing on the starting element. To do this, I just added a 100ms delay before each test ran (Using Jasmine 2.3). beforeEach(function(done){ loadFixtures('myfixture.html'); // Setting focus in IE requires a delay to work correctly! setTimeout(function(){ done(); }, 100); });
I recently ran into a situation where some of my styles were broken in Internet Explorer 8. What makes this different from all the other times my styles broke in IE8 was that, as far as I could tell, it was correct. Consider the following code: %highlighted { background-color: #ff0; color: #333; } .keyword.is-active { @extend %highlighted; padding: 10px; text-transform: uppercase; } No problem, right? Then why isn't it working? I wasn't sure, until I looked at the compiled CSS and saw something like this: .some-list:nth-child(2n), .is-highlighted, .keyword.is-active { background-color: #ff0; color: #333; } .keyword.is-active { padding: 10px; text-transform: uppercase; } Since IE8 doesn't support the css selector nth-child , it ignores the entire rule . Without looking at the final output, there's no way of knowing if this will happen ahead of time. So what can you do? Well,