Testing websites on a mac?

[toString]

Is there anyway of doing this? (without buying one!)

I'm aware of browsercam, but trying to fix a bug using it could be extremely frustrating and time consuming.

Any ideas?

 

[RandomTom]

Apart from browsercam, would it be possible to ask someone on msn who owns a mac to look as you do it? that's what i've been doing with some sites I've produced, lol

 

[BillytheImpaler]

I presume you mean to test sites in Safari. Is this correct?

 

[zetec452]

Who uses a MAC anyway.





There is a website that can emulate your website in Safari.

 

[BillytheImpaler]

Who uses a MAC anyway..

You do. Most networking equipment has Media Access Control addresses associated with it.

 

[zetec452]

ya ya

 

[Al Vallario]

Who uses a MAC anyway.

As BillytheImpaler pointed out, chances are you use a MAC. Lots of people use Apple Macintosh computers as well

 

[Broadbandplacey]

ypu, best was is find a friend with os x and get them to print screens or test the page for you...

i have to do it in reverse for testing in IE

 

[BillytheImpaler]

I'd take the RandomTom approach and just get asscoates to test for you. there are plenty of posts in this forum asking people with different browsers to test pages.

Safari uses the KHTML rendering engine. This is the same engine used by Konqueror. You could install Konqeror on your machine and get a very good idea of what Safari would do.

 

[Gman]

You could install Konqeror on your machine and get a very good idea of what Safari would do.

I've used this approach in the past using the ubunta live cd which saves you having to install it.

 

[nav...]

just buy a macbook and test on it

 

[Augmented]

Safari uses the KHTML rendering engine. This is the same engine used by Konqueror. You could install Konqeror on your machine and get a very good idea of what Safari would do.

Safari did use KHTML, but then created a fork in Webcore for Webkit. Still similar underlying code, and I believe Apple still work on/with the KHTML developers, but I wouldn't have complete faith that Safari and Konqueror will perform identically. Not forgetting that OSX will render fonts and form controls different to the majority of Linux environments .

 

[iCraig]

It's a good excuse to buy a mac mini.

 

[Beansprout]

It's a good excuse to buy a mac mini.

Noo, a Macbook with 1Gb+ RAM. Ctrl+shift+alt to switch between OSs, it's unimaginably smooth

 

[nav...]

Noo, a Macbook with 1Gb+ RAM. Ctrl+shift+alt to switch between OSs, it's unimaginably smooth

word.

*strokes macbook that work bought him*

 

[Beansprout]

word.

*strokes macbook that work bought him*

*Ditto* (Pro! (was going cheap))

 

[iCraig]

Stop stroking stuff I can't have!

 

[nav...]

you need a lesson in convincing people stuff is a good idea and give them spiel about the rise of the mac

thats how I did it at least.

 

[Sic]

pah, Beansprout still using subhuman OS's. none of this OS-shifting for me!