Some of us still remember the crazy times of doing websites that are compatible with IE6 AND all the other browsers. IE6 was so bad, that sometimes almost all the code had to be rewritten specifically for it. Programmers made two versions of the site – for all the browsers and IE6, and there were online petitions to ban IE6 in corporations, because it was mostly their fault people still had to code for IE6 in the first place. Their upgrade process was so slow, that some are still using IE6, even now, but thankfully less and less each year.
Testing a web project is still important though, mostly because doing a website for browsers and IE6 had been replaced by doing the website for all possible devices, including both mobile and big screen TV’s sometimes. But the cool thing I as a designer noticed, is that it’s become very easy to make it work across a range of devices. We test all our websites on Chrome, Firefox, Safari, IE9, iOS Safari, Android browser and Windows Phone IE and we notice that there are barely any differences between them.
Long live HTML5! This definitely is the future of web design and saves us (and our users) tons of time and frustration!