Comments on: Why I use Safari for Development

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 18:21:57 +0000

….you’re dumb? The Acid tests are for future concepts, NOT current standards. Just because Safari wins the Acid3 contest does not mean it’s the best browser available. For 99.9999999999% of the HTML you will ever write, the Acid test won’t help you. Because it’s not testing standards. Do some fucking research before you go and insult the one browser out there that’s actually geared for web developers.

By: Thomas Fuchs

Thomas Fuchs — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:16:17 +0000

IMHO, “decent” and “uncrippled” are FUD. How is OS X not decent?

By: Karl

Karl — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 11:45:35 +0000

“OS X is the only system that allows me to test all major browsers side-by-side by means of virtualization software”

This is untrue. I use a linux host and using VMWare run OSX and Win VMs. Granted you need a recent processor with VT enabled but this lets you run a decent, uncrippled OS primarily and only dip into OSX or Windows when necessary.

By: Shane Mingins

Shane Mingins — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:08:59 +0000

Thanks for this post Thomas, it actually got me back to looking at the Web Developer tool on Safari this morning which highlighted a bug I was looking at briefly yesterday. Owe you a beer

By: Kjell

Kjell — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 07:41:27 +0000

Yup, i would love to switch but i am soooo used to some extensions… It’s crazy.

Those are more design related, but where to draw the line these days anyway..

@Thomas:
- What (if) do you use as a replacement for EditCSS? The realtime editing of CSS in Safari Panel is alot harder than with FB. Very small inputs and TAB jumps to “search”.

- ColorZilla Replacement? I often just pick the color right from the page for copy/paste rather than scrolling around in some CSS file to find the value. (yeh, i’m lazy like that;)

By: itkin

itkin — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:05:39 +0000

hi !

Safri dev tool look definitely nice , but 2 thinks make me craisy
- first the “focus” html button is not really well positionned and quite little, is there any shortcut to launch this functionnality?
- second the css rules are not associated with the line they are defined but only with their file, this is clearly anoying when you have large css files

Except theese 2 points i would adopt safari which is far more quick to serve pages, than firefox.

By: Luca

Luca — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:47:26 +0000

@Marijn
youre right.
i dont, and iwont use safari developer tools only for this lack.
too much important for me.
i hope it will fixed soon.

By: ardianzzz

ardianzzz — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:28:11 +0000

yeah, safari is cool…. but i using chrome…

By: Alex Wayne

Alex Wayne — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:30:47 +0000

One other thing about Firefox I love is the box model diagram:

http://beautifulpixel.com/assets/firbug_layout_editor-20090728-152815.jpg

It’s so damn useful. Especially since you can mouse over each area and have it outlined on the HTML document so you know where your padding and margins and borders are falling very precisely, and adjust them accordingly right there.

This is one of the biggest reasons I still use Firebug.

By: JT

JT — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 01:53:30 +0000

Firefox 3.5 + Firebug + Google Page Speed plug-in at this time cannot be beat. Period.

There are many other plug-ins I use as well, but the two listed above easily make Firefox much better for development.