that you can download to test how a webpage will look on a Mac?

4/19/2006 5:08:41 PM

It will look the same across platforms as long as the browser engine is the same. Safari, Camino, and Firefox all use Gecko, so test the page in Firefox on a PC.

4/19/2006 5:29:05 PM

^^I'm guessing you mean in safari, since firefox and opera are both availible on the mac and use the same rendering engines they do in their pc versions?

^ what he said

[Edited on April 19, 2006 at 5:30 PM. Reason : ]

4/19/2006 5:30:12 PM

i love these kinds of questions

4/19/2006 5:30:59 PM

not true. I have a page that looks good and fine on Firefox when tested on my PC, however, I went to my dad's office yesterday and tested it on his Mac and it looked similar, but there were definite issues. So it's NOT the same...

4/19/2006 5:37:39 PM

but was the mac running firefox, opera, camino, or safari? also, do you know that they were running the same version even? Safari does have some issues with certain things that other browsers do not (the login redirect for NCSU sites for example.) The same version of the same browser should not display the same page differently across platforms unless there is something else going wrong there.

4/19/2006 5:40:38 PM

just make sure it works in IE. other browsers dont matter

4/19/2006 5:50:54 PM

well I'm pretty sure it was the same version of Firefox...but more the problem is that I had a friend look at some of my sites and she's on a Mac and said there were 'alignment' issues.

I think the issue with the specific page I tested on my dad's mac may have had to do with a a z-index setting, but I don't know, and I don't have a mac here to test and sure I could ask my dad but the whole point here was to see if there was some sort of tool out there that I could download to troubleshoot my own shit with

4/19/2006 6:02:50 PM

Quote :

"It will look the same across platforms as long as the browser engine is the same. Safari, Camino, and Firefox all use Gecko, so test the page in Firefox on a PC."

Not true.

And the same version of Firefox on Windows and a Mac will look different too. And Firefox and Safari render totally differently.

There is NO way to test what pages will look like on a Mac, on a PC. You have to get a Mac.

Just pick up a cheapo G3 tower for a couple hundred bucks and put OSX on it.

4/19/2006 6:53:50 PM

found a couple things:

http://browsershots.org/
and https://www.browsercam.com/
?

4/19/2006 7:22:48 PM