Comments on: Multi-Safari: Testing with 10 versions of Safari at once

By: redesigned

redesigned — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:25:49 +0000

Trevor, have you tried IEtester? That is what you are looking for.
http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage
All the major versions of IE with their correct css and js engines, in a tabbed interface with some debugging.

By: Trevor

Trevor — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 17:42:45 +0000

This is only good for testing layout. If youâ€™re testing JavaScript behavior, youâ€™ll need to run a completely separate OS with the version of IE that you want to test running as the primary version.
The reason being, all versions of stand alone IE will use the â€˜installedâ€™ version of IEâ€™s JavaScript engine.

Unless you can prove otherwise, that’s not true. The only thing MultipleIEs has problems with by default (and it can be solved) is resolving the correct conditional comments, and possibly cookies (though I’ve only had this problem in one case).

By: chenggn

chenggn — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 05:54:21 +0000

These Safari close themselves whenever it opens a URI.
-OSX 10.4.10.

By: Ian

Ian — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 00:09:07 +0000

Ask. Receive.

This is only good for testing layout. If you’re testing JavaScript behavior, you’ll need to run a completely separate OS with the version of IE that you want to test running as the primary version.

The reason being, all versions of stand alone IE will use the ‘installed’ version of IE’s JavaScript engine.

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 20:51:29 +0000

Ask. Receive.

http://browsers.evolt.org/?ie/32bit/standalone

By: Simon Jia

Simon Jia — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 20:23:54 +0000

why waste time on this???? now lets see someone builds a testing tool that allows you to test through different versions of IE. IMO, that’s more useful. Maybe firefox too. whatever the top three or five browser is being used on the statistics is really what we need to test with.

By: Trevor

Trevor — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 19:07:53 +0000

just curious – how many Safari 1.x users are in the wild?

Less than half a percent of the market.

This is also not new. These standalones have been around for ages, and as Jim said, they don’t work where you’d want them to.

At least you can run 2.x, 3.x and WebKit side by side on 10.4.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:39:40 +0000

just curious – how many Safari 1.x users are in the wild?

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:05:22 +0000

Don’t get too excited by this. These still do not let you run 1.x Safari in 10.4 or 2.x Safari in 10.3.

The only benefit is if you need to compare dot releases. This is a very rare need since many users will probably have Apple Software Update enabled and will already be up-to-date with their browser.