Testing web application on Mac/Safari when I don't own a Mac

Question

Having been caught out recently when a web site I launched displayed perfectly on IE, Firefox, Chrome and Safari on Windows but was corrupted when viewed using Safari on the Mac

Answer 1

Litmus may help you. It will take screenshots of your webpage(s) in a wide variety of browsers so you can make sure that your site works in all of them. A free alternative (Litmus is a paid service) is Browsershots, but you do get what you pay for. (In some screenshots that Browershots returns, the browser hasn't yet finished loading the webpage...)

Of course, as other people have suggested, buying a Mac is also a good solution (and may be better, depending on the kind of testing you need to do), because then you can test your website yourself in any of the browsers that run under Mac OS X or Windows.

Answer 2

The best site to test website and see them realtime on MAC Safari is by using

Browserstack

They have like 25 free minutes of first time testing and then 10 free mins each day..You can even test your pages from your local PC by using their WEB TUNNEL Feature

I tested 7 to 8 pages in browserstack...And I think they have some java debugging tool in the upper right corner that is great help

Answer 3

There's a free trial for 100 minutes on https://browserling.com and you can test on Safari v7.0 during the trial period.

Answer 4

If it's a major concern to start doing a lot of testing on a Mac, then I would definitely suggest buying a second hand Mac, or perhaps building a Hackintosh. The former gets you up and running quickly, the latter gives you a lot of power for the same price.

For just the odd piece of testing, running OS X in VMWare on your current PC is a cheaper option.

Answer 5

For my case (a small, personal project) https://www.lambdatest.com/ was very helpful. Free tier allows for 6 sessions per month.

Answer 6

Amazon AWS recently launched macOS EC2 instances.

As of now (Dec 2020) they are pretty pricey, you have to reserve them minimum for 24h.

You can connect to the instance via VNC (sample guide for connecting from Windows) and test your browser.