I started doing web development in 1997 on a mac 7200 & OS 7 using
SoftWindows/win95/win97 when necessary to insure PC browser
compatibility and convert MS-Access dbs to real rdbms. Later I used
VirtualPC/Win NT/Win2K/WinXp.-- now on OS X Tiger with VPC 7.
Every once in a long while I wish I had a PC... but I've never owned
one (and refuse to use one.
Actually, testing multiple versions of IE browsers was easier (albeit
slower) on an emulator-- you could have several emulator windows
concurrently open, each with its own version of win & IE. (can't do
that on a PC).
This was especially useful when MS was, alternately integrating (then
extragating) IE into the OS (whatta a crock that was)
Also, you can have multiple win SPs installed on different emulated
win versions.
So, I would sit there with windows showing
1) OS X and several browsers & versions
2) OS 9 & several Browsers & versions
3) Win97 & IE whatever
4) Win97 and IE whatever + n + SP n
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*
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and however many current win, SP & IE versions that were acting up
(being used).
sometimes I would have 10 different environments!
Anyway, I would make a change to the web site & could immediately
(tho, slowly) test it in all the current browser/SP/OSes.
I did a lot of this on an original iMac with a (i forget) a 233 MHz
G3 & 256 Meg RAM.
It worked well enough!
HTH
Dick
On Jun 27, 2005, at 9:39 PM, Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote:
On 28/06/2005, at 10:55 AM, Jason Lampitt wrote:
I'm wondering what other web developers who love their Mac do to
ensure their sites look and perform just as great in IE/FireFox on
the PC as they do on the Mac... using only their Mac.
Oh purrleeese, the fashion police aren't going to arrest you for
running both platforms. If you want something to look like a duck,
walk like a duck and sound like a duck you should get a duck.
malcolm
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