testing mac browser

[rodchar]

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

[Scott M.]

Really? Are you serious?

I'd like to go to the moon. But without going into space or getting on a
rocket.
"rodchar" <ro*****@discussions.microsoft.comwrote in message
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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

[cprobert]

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
rodchar wrote:

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

[rodchar]

thanks for the suggestion. i appreciate it.

"cp******@gmail.com" wrote:

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
rodchar wrote:

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

[Mark Rae]

"rodchar" <ro*****@discussions.microsoft.comwrote in message
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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?

No.

[Mark Rae]

<cp******@gmail.comwrote in message
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So I use konqurer on Linux. This should give you a good aproximation of
how Safari render the page!

Not even close. Safari famously doesn't understand at all <asp:Menuand
<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.

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 <asp:Menuand

<asp:TreeView>,

That's interesting, I don't know what code the <asp:Menuand
<asp:TreeViewproduces. I prefer to bind the sitemap to a bullet list
and use CSS to do the styling - its nice and accessible.

I suggest Open SUSE.

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...

I find a lot of the automatically generated HTML to be poor quality,
its a shame we have to to go such lengths.

C

[Mark Rae]

"<oo</" <cp******@gmail.comwrote in message
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> Safari famously doesn't understand at all <asp:Menuand
<asp:TreeView>,

That's interesting, I don't know what code the <asp:Menuand
<asp:TreeViewproduces. I prefer to bind the sitemap to a bullet list
and use CSS to do the styling - its nice and accessible.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourc...Menu%22+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.

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... :-)