testing mac browser

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hey all,
longshot here, but is there anyway to test my asp.net web app in a mac
browser without actually having to buy a mac or know anyone who has a mac?

thanks,
rodchar
 
Really? Are you serious?

I'd like to go to the moon. But without going into space or getting on a
rocket.
 
Safari uses the KHTML rendering engine (forked from konqurer).

So I use konqurer on Linux. This should give you a good aproximation of
how Safari render the page!
You can run Linux in a VMware virtual machine - they even have a free
player: http://www.vmware.com/products/player/

You just need to get your hands on a pre-made VMware Linux image.
There are many available for download from:
http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/

Konqurer is a native KDE application although it will run an GNOME
based distros.

I suggest Open SUSE.



Hope this helps


C
 
thanks for the suggestion. i appreciate it.

[email protected] said:
Safari uses the KHTML rendering engine (forked from konqurer).

So I use konqurer on Linux. This should give you a good aproximation of
how Safari render the page!
You can run Linux in a VMware virtual machine - they even have a free
player: http://www.vmware.com/products/player/

You just need to get your hands on a pre-made VMware Linux image.
There are many available for download from:
http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/

Konqurer is a native KDE application although it will run an GNOME
based distros.

I suggest Open SUSE.



Hope this helps


C
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So I use konqurer on Linux. This should give you a good aproximation of
how Safari render the page!
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Not even close. Safari famously doesn't understand at all <asp:Menu> and
<asp:TreeView>, and there are many other differences...

Bottom line - if you want to test on a Mac, you need a Mac. I bought a Mac
Mini so that it slotted right into the rest of my network, though I had to
get a Belkin KVM. Works perfectly.
I suggest Open SUSE.
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I fully agree with that. I use Virtual PC and have a SuSE 10 virtual machine
with Konqueror, Epiphany, FireFox, Opera, Netscape and Mozilla installed for
testing...
 
Safari famously doesn't understand at all said:
<asp:TreeView>,
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That's interesting, I don't know what code the <asp:Menu> and
I fully agree with that. I use Virtual PC and have a SuSE 10 virtual machine
with Konqueror, Epiphany, FireFox, Opera, Netscape and Mozilla installed for
testing...
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I find a lot of the automatically generated HTML to be poor quality,
its a shame we have to to go such lengths.

C
 
That's interesting, I don't know what code the <asp:Menu> and
<asp:TreeView> produces. I prefer to bind the sitemap to a bullet list
and use CSS to do the styling - its nice and accessible.
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http://www.google.co.uk/search?sour...GLG,GGLG:2006-28,GGLG:en&q="<asp:Menu"+Safari

Some of the solutions work some of the time... It's a bit of a problem,
especially since Safari is now the most popular browser on Macs...
http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2006/July/browser.php
I find a lot of the automatically generated HTML to be poor quality,
its a shame we have to to go such lengths.
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Well, since I bit the bullet and upgraded all my sites to full XHTML
compliance, things have been massively better... Even IE7 seems to be
playing friendly... :-)
 
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