Sufferin' Safari

Do any of my fair readers have any experience or advice on Safari development tools, plug-ins, or debuggers? Most of my day to day surfing & debugging is with Firefox and IE on Windows, and I know where most of the toys for those browsers are hiding.

My knowledge of Safari plug ins & development begins and ends w/ Pimp My Safari, but I have no idea if the plug-ins are Mac only or run on Windows as well? Furthermore, I have no idea if any of them worth downloading? What are the differences between the Windows & Mac versions of Safari? Is the Mac version of Safari better than its Windows cousin (God, I hope so). How does day to day life as a web developer on Safari compare to that on Firefox or IE? In the Windows world, let's just say Safari, has its share of issues, and is unlikely to win any converts on Windows. I will admit that Safari 3.0.4 for Windows beta was an improvement over their previous beta, but it's still uglier than Opera, and buggier than IE.

However, I suspect that Apple writes code, like the Seahawks play football. They are both much better teams at home, so I suspect Mac Safari is pretty good if you use fruit computers on a daily basis. And if the rumors are to be believed, Safari is going to become much faster, which probably means Safari is going to grow its share of the market. Either way, I'm probably looking at larger browser test matrix and a new set of browser bugs to learn about for my applications.

Perhaps, I should just spelunk on Apple's Safari Developer FAQ, until I find the droids I'm looking for?

Print | posted on Thursday, February 14, 2008 11:46 AM

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# re: Sufferin' Safari

Gravatar left by Robbie at 2/25/2008 9:13 AM
I've since found 2 useful blog posts on the topic...

1. Enable Debug Mode on Safari (Windows) + Error
2. Web Inspector for Safari on Windows

# re: Sufferin' Safari

Gravatar left by Robbie at 2/27/2008 11:46 PM
3. Some of Apple's Safari documentation (in case I need it later).
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