Considering pitfalls of responsive testing
Who says testing is ever easy? This is true in most projects, but particularly so when testing responsive sites. We've concentrated on working with responsive media throughout this book, but many of the pitfalls we are likely to encounter will equally apply at a site level and not just to images or videos. The following list gives us an idea of such pitfalls:
- Which devices should you test? To some degree, this will depend on researching your target market. But it should be a wide range to include both Android and iOS devices and popular mobile browsers such as Chrome, Opera Mini, and Dolphin.
We clearly can't test for every device, so use of Google Analytics is key to establishing a good range of devices that should be used. A great example of how testing has helped influence a company's responsive design is Marriot hotels. They found that their mobile site uncovered a number of issues with how their homepage was being displayed. Fixing...
