Mac browser screenshot generator

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Mac browser screenshot generator

Postby Antony » Thu 08 Sep, 2005 1:23 am

Obviously, not that I need this service, but I found it and thought it could be a good idea to share it here.

[url=http://www.fundisom.com/g5/]Screenshot Generator[/b], it is said to generate Safari, MSIE (for Mac) and Mozilla (Mac) for helping webdesigners who do not have the world's easiest-to-use personal computer.

The problem... service is currently unavailable.
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
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Postby Don_HH2K » Thu 08 Sep, 2005 2:33 pm

While such software might be helpful for web designers, I would find it easier to test for Safari by using a bootable version of Linux with KDE and Konqueror on it. They are not the same, but Safari and AppleWebKit are based heavily on KDE's KHTML engine. You may not get the full picture, but you'll get a pretty good idea of what you're dealing with.

The only problem you might run into is configuring a network card -- Linux doesn't get along with some hardware as easily as Mac or Windows does. I've found that on four of the PCs I've tested a bootable Linux distribution on, you need to configure the network card manually. And, what if your distribution doesn't include the drivers you need? Well, you're just out of luck.

If you are using only client-side code (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc...), then you can always just load the files into Konqueror off your hard drive, which is usually mounted in /mnt/windows or /mnt/win_c. It will not work with PHP, ASP, or server-side languages of that nature, unless you can find a bootable distribution with Apache (which I would find highly unlikely).

MSIE for Mac is a different story, since its rendering engine only exists on Mac and no other operating system. Mozilla is completely cross-platform, so it will look exactly the same under every operating system (with the exception of installed fonts and video card color settings).
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