{"id":237,"date":"2007-06-10T15:50:13","date_gmt":"2007-06-10T13:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/06\/10\/cross-browser-testing-on-your-intel-based-mac\/"},"modified":"2007-12-15T21:10:40","modified_gmt":"2007-12-15T19:10:40","slug":"cross-browser-testing-on-your-intel-based-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/06\/10\/cross-browser-testing-on-your-intel-based-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross browser testing on your Intel-based Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Intel-based Macs, web developers now can test their pages in multiple operating systems and browsers with a single machine.<\/p>\n<h2>Virtualization software<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.parallels.com\/\">Parallels<\/a> is complete and stable, but a piece of software you will have to pay for. The price of 80 USD per license isn\u2019t unacceptably high for an average web developer, but if you\u2019re cutting your expenses, this might turn you down. In any case, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parallels.com\/en\/download\/desktop\/\">download trial<\/a> and evaluate if it\u2019s worth the price. Anyway&#8230; from the version 3.0, the application supports 3D graphics and various USB devices, but it also has a set of supplementary tools, such as Transporter, which helps you migrate your existing Windows PC to a Parallels Virtual Machine. Parallels support <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parallels.com\/en\/products\/desktop\/os\/\">bunch of OSes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of this writing, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vmware.com\/products\/beta\/fusion\/\">VMware Fusion<\/a> is in its\u2019 beta 4 version and is free to download. So far, it works pretty stable on my MacBook Pro, even in situations when both Vista + IE7 and XP + IE6 virtual machines are up. If you opt to use Fusion, there\u2019s over 450 preconfigured virtual machines that can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vmware.com\/vmtn\/appliances\/directory\/cat\/45\/rating+desc\">Virtual Appliance Marketplace<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/mac\/products\/virtualpc\/virtualpc.aspx?pid=virtualpc\">Virtual PC<\/a> can\u2019t be run on Intel-based Mac, but if you\u2019re on PowerPC, it will cost you 129 USD for standalone or 219 USD for VPC7 + Windows XP Home. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windows\/products\/winfamily\/virtualpc\/default.mspx\">VirtualPC for Windows<\/a> is free. The advantage of VirtualPC are preconfigured time-bombed ISO images available from Microsoft. There are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?FamilyId=21EABB90-958F-4B64-B5F1-73D0A413C8EF&#038;displaylang=en\">WindowsXP + IE6 and Windows XP + IE7 installations<\/a> currently available and those will run till August 17, 2007.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macosx\/bootcamp\/\">Boot Camp<\/a> is really not a virtualization application. What it does is lets you boot to either Mac OS or Windows installation and it is obvious that it\u2019s impossible to test web pages in such an environment. Boot Camp will be shipped with Mac OS X Leopard, but until then, if you want to, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/downloads\/macosx\/apple\/application_updates\/bootcamp.html\">download Boot Camp from Apple.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Operating Systems<\/h2>\n<p>We\u2019re currently testing pages in the following virtual setups (note that besides virtualization app of your choice, you\u2019ll probably have to purchase a license for each of your separate OS installations):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Windows XP SP2 + IE6, Firefox 1.5.x and Opera 8.5<\/li>\n<li>Windows Vista + IE7, Firefox 2.x and Opera 9.x<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SUSE_Linux\">Suse 10<\/a> + Konqueror and Firefox<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Browsers<\/h2>\n<p>Older browsers can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/browsers.evolt.org\/\">evolt.org<\/a>, the latest at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.download.com\/Browsers\/2001-2137_4-0.html\">download.com<\/a>. Opera keeps <a href=\"http:\/\/arc.opera.com\/pub\/opera\/win\/\">browser archive<\/a> and so does <a href=\"http:\/\/browser.netscape.com\/downloads\/archive\/\">Netscape<\/a>. If needed, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/en-US\/firefox\/all-older.html\">download Firefox 1.5<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What more to say? 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