There’s an increasing number of Mac users who are impossible to ignore. I may even become one myself at some point as they do look pretty nice! If like me you’ve always coded websites on a PC in the past you might have been forgiven for ‘over-looking’ the small percentage
of people who use Macs. But this is all changing! Some say, “Once a Mac user, always a Mac user” and the new converts are changing sides in vast numbers. It used to be just music moguls and designers who used a Mac, but now even a few of my more ‘techy’ friends have started buying Macs.
Geek chic, where style, performance and function all come together in perfect harmony. So where does this leave the web designer? Well if you can afford it then I suggest you buy a Mac, install Safari and test away. For those that can’t afford the hefty
price tag, then check out browsrcamp.com where you can see what your site looks like on a Mac running Safari.
February 15th, 2008 at 11:23 am
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February 25th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
Weirdly this point actually from a total Mac company as always been more a pain for us… Testing Safari native sites in IE and etc. It seems Firefox is our saviour for getting the best cross platform idea of how things are translating but at the end of the day video/flash rich sites always need a lot of testing.
Good blog guys….
March 14th, 2008 at 10:31 am
For what its worth I have my laptop running Safari and it installed on my P.C here at work too.
http://www.apple.com/safari/download/
For the most part they look the same. One thing tho with Safari mac, if you using inline lists I believe you need to give the ul or ol element a defined width. I’m not 100% on this but I remember running into this problem before.