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I'm happy that Microsoft provides these VM's and I hope other vendors (Hi Apple!) would provide VM's as well. So we can make sure the web is accessible for anyo

by BjornW 11y ago

I'm happy that Microsoft provides these VM's and I hope other vendors (Hi Apple!) would provide VM's as well. So we can make sure the web is accessible for anyone regardless the browser they use.

cptskippy 11y ago
That would totally go against Apple's business model. If Apple provided VMs for developers to test with they would lose 92.76%* of their Enterprise market. * I made that number up.
pierrec 11y ago
Wishful thinking. They actually make an effort to make sure OSX is not virtualizable onto other platforms. We recently had a pretty long-winded discussion about this very problem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9644773 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9644773
lucianmarin 11y ago
That's not a problem. You can find WebKit powered browsers on any platform. It's the same WebKit used in Safari on OS X and iOS.
- ChrisLTD 11y ago
  Now that Chrome is using Blink, what's the best WebKit option on Windows?
  - serve_yay 11y ago
    Yeah, I'm not sure what lucianmarin is talking about.
  - dankohn1 11y ago
    PhantomJS for headless testing? http://phantomjs.org/ http://phantomjs.org/
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- aikah 11y ago
  > You can find WebKit powered browsers on any platform lol what? The latest Safari version on Windows is 5.x and isn't even distributed officially by Apple anymore. And Safari is a bit more than just Webkit. > That's not a problem Yes it is.Without a mac, one can't test websites on Safari.
  - lucianmarin 11y ago
    http://midori-browser.org/ http://midori-browser.org/
    - ossreality 11y ago
      So there's another browser that is NOT Safari 5. What part of this are you not getting?