It would be great if Apple offered Virtual Machines with Safari pre-installed for testing, as Microsoft does for Internet Explorer. If you don’t own or have access to a Mac this can be very frustrating (though I would not say it’s the most frustrating thing about developing a web app for iOS, there are many). Windows & Linux developers will be disappointed to hear that the latest version of Safari available for Windows is version 5, and it’s not available at all on Linux. If you are debugging Safari on iOS this will require Safari version 6 and up. The answer is that you debug remotely, using the same tool as you would on desktop, except connected to your mobile device. If you are a web developer, you are likely very familiar with the tools available to you when debugging a web page or web app in a desktop browser, but how do you debug when developing for a mobile device such as the iPad or iPhone? One problem that I have encountered is how to debug iOS Safari, particularly if you are not a Mac user. Recently, I have been working on improving mobile support in the content produced by our PDF to HTML5 converter. Remote debugging iOS Safari on OS X, Windows and Linux He oversees the BuildVu product strategy and roadmap in addition to spending lots of time writing code. Leon Atherton Leon is a developer at IDRsolutions and product manager for BuildVu.
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