I had just finished working on Mark´s 3D Modelling site and asked him to look it over for me. He said it wasn´t displaying properly on his boss´s Mac using Safari so I thought I´d check it out.
I don´t normally do too much in the way of testing with more than IE6 since it´s still the most widely used browser, so if the main page looks right in Firefox and IE then I assume the rest of the site will work OK (I mostly hand-code and try to use only accepted standards).
This site is a bit different though since its highly CSS dependant, using a lot of absolute positioned Divs. It was fine in the usual setups I use for testing but thought I´d try and get hold of a copy of Safari and see what was going on. Unfortunately we haven´t got a Mac and I don´t know anyone else who has either. Time to try and find another way of getting a copy.
There was no way I could get a copy on Windoze so I decided to hit t´internet to look for alternatives. I eventually came accross a solution called iCapture which I a free service that seems very popular. I couldn´t try it though as the queue wasn´t accepting requests and I was in a hurry.
After a bit more research I then found out that Safari is based on the KHTML engine. Another browser based on this engine is Konqueror, part of the KDE desktop environment. All my Linux servers don´t have X-windows or any other GUI installed but I did have a spare box so I went for a freah install to use as a test box.
An hour later I was testing the site on a new Fedora install and after another hour of screaming at the screen cos of ever more complicated CSS hacks, my Windoze box crashing and general interuptions, it was all running fine.
Hopefully they will report back that it´s all good now and I´ve got something I can test on for all you people in Mac-land.
I'm a web developer based in the East Midlands, UK and if I keep up the current rate, I might have developed 3 million sites by the time I retire