BrowserStack, Sauce Labs - same test, different results

Question

I've been cross-browser testing with Sauce for a while now. I recently heard about BrowserStack and decided to give it a try. I dig it... it's way faster, and the UI far more intuitive and cooperative.

It's taken me forever to find a way to get IE8 to recognize media queries. Respond.js didn't work no matter what I did (I tried everything under the sun), but eventually I tried css3-mediaqueries.js and it seemed to work right out of the chute.

But when I tested the same page in BrowserStack, thud, no media queries.

Can anyone tell me how it might be that the same test parameters (IE8, Windows 7, 1024x768) shows media queries working in Sauce, but not in BrowserStack?

Here is the stripped down test page link I was using:

http://www.ilium.com/test

Answer 1

We (BrowserStack) are not sure why you are facing issue with respond.js. We tried sample test page, which works as expected.

Your url, our test with IE8 VMware VM's and BrowserStack IE8 report the same result. Local IE8 VM BrowserStack IE8

We went ahead to try to make it work like chrome. Enabling setting "Access data sources across domains" makes it work something like below, not exactly like other browsers like chrome.

Let us know for any further clarifications.