Given a choice, I would never use a PC over a Mac or a Unix box! Running
Linux on a PC is great, but don't bother with any of Microsoft's
substandard operating systems! Unix is king when it comes to operating
systems and Microsoft will never, I repeat NEVER, catch up!
- Asad
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Dick Applebaum wrote:
> 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
> *
> *
> *
> 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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