Pete Posted November 17, 2014 Share Posted November 17, 2014 I'm a PC guy and don't own a Mac so testing for tedious JS issues on a Mac that aren't visible on the same browsers on the PC would have been difficult if it wasn't for a free trial of this: http://crossbrowsertesting.com The issue was a weird date bug when changing months in a calendar - on Windows my code changed the month name in a <span> just fine based on the current month showing in the calendar. On Mac for some reason, when you went to the next month the same month name showed, but it then worked fine after that. I suspect something wasn't playing with the calendar plugin I was using, but it's all sorted now. Just being able to try lots of different things to see what worked on Mac saved me about 30-40 emails to someone whilst tweaking things saying "can you check now?" 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwired Posted November 17, 2014 Share Posted November 17, 2014 More here http://browsershots.org/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted November 18, 2014 Author Share Posted November 18, 2014 Yup, except the one I linked to is a real machine you can remote into through your browser. Both are valuable, but I couldn't check the javascript click issue on browsershots.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joss Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 And for the amount of money they charge, you could almost buy a mac! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gebeer Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 You could also use a mac in a virtual machine for testing http://bit.ly/11xY5YN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted November 18, 2014 Author Share Posted November 18, 2014 And for the amount of money they charge, you could almost buy a mac! That's why I used the 60 minute free trial and whenever something I changed didn't work, I shut it down immediately so it wasn't using any more minutes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joss Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 The words cheap and skate come to mind. Though I believe the northern term for it is "pragmatic" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Knight Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 Pete - you need to get a Mac *runs for cover* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joss Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 Pete - you need to get a Mac *runs for cover* Translation: Cover = Any pub building with a bar roof and alcohol doors. There is a bit of me that would like a mac, but there is another bit of me that does not want another learning curve! There is a third bit of me that has just run and hid my credit card. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Knight Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 There is a bit of me that would like a mac, but there is another bit of me that does not want another learning curve! Surely say the learning curve is neglible? I mean apart from understanding how the Finder works and some basic navigation of the directories, there can't be much to learn. BTW I'm actually a Mac and PC man myself. Been building my own PCs for years (for gaming). I've nothing against PCs but think Windows is a nightmare. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostKobrakai Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 If you use the console, it's even less learning, because mac os as well as all those linux servers use the same unix commands. @gebeer Any insight in virtual machines? Isn't this as shitty to setup as those hackintosh machines? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwired Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 Any insight in virtual machines? Isn't this as shitty to setup as those hackintosh machines? virtualbox and vmware workstation work perfectly. With it I have reduced win xp and wamp to expandable os and development assets. I can delete and start up new ones on the fly. You could do the same with a complete installed mac os. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gebeer Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 I've been working with virtualbox VMs for quite some time now and can say that they are very easy to setup and maintain. Getting OSX to run requires a bit more of an effort. But once things are setup it is running smoothly. I do all my development work on a Linux box and do all the IE and Safari debugging in VMs. For IE the images provided by modern.ie are great. For setting up OSX in a virtualbox VM see the link that I posted in #5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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