But does Apple really care about web developers? How do you test on Safari if you don’t have Apple devices? How difficult can it be for Apple to make barebones virtual machines with just Safaris?
Just like you would test IE on Linux or OS X.
The Safari MCP server for web developers
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Re: The Safari MCP server for web developers
#22But does Apple really care about web developers? How do you test on Safari if you don’t have Apple devices? How difficult can it be for Apple to make barebones virtual machines with just Safaris?
> How do you test on Safari if you don’t have Apple devices?
How do you test a Playstation game without a Playstation (dev kit)? How do you test some hardware firmware without having the hardware? How can you run a program without the hardware required to run the program, if no emulator/simulator is available?
I'm almost lost at words how these are questions, unless they're theoretical and some diatribe comes afterwards that has the actual point trying to be made, but it never came.
Yes, some things run only on specific hardware and without virtualization/emulation, you're not supposed to test those things outside of the hardware. Been a thing for decades, probably since the beginning of computing.
> How difficult can it be for Apple to make barebones virtual machines with just Safaris?
Almost nothing Apple does is seemingly decided by how difficult it is, for better or worse, but are strategic decisions. If you haven't caught up with that they're building a walled garden for themselves, I'm not sure what could convince that they are. I think this is extremely clear for most people. If you don't like it, don't play there, like the rest of us.
Re: The Safari MCP server for web developers
#23I have been using Chrome's official MCP devtools server since Nov 2025. https://github.com/ChromeDevTools/chrome-devtools-mcp Before that I used Chrome web drivers but MCP is faster and more capable. I also instruct LLMs to test my pages on Firefox using its official MCP to make sure they work in Firefox too: https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-devtools-mcp Now I will add Safari to the compatibility tests. cool
Is there a difference between using these and using the playwright mcp with Chrome/Firefox config?
Re: The Safari MCP server for web developers
#24> There are many ways to build for the web, both with and without AI. If AI is a part of your workflow, we think this tool will help make it even more productive. And if it isn’t, that’s OK too.
Crazy thing to say in 2026 where if you write code and not delegate every bit to an agent you're considered a noob by some people.
Re: The Safari MCP server for web developers
#25> There are many ways to build for the web, both with and without AI. If AI is a part of your workflow, we think this tool will help make it even more productive. And if it isn’t, that’s OK too. Crazy thing to say in 2026 where if you write code and not delegate every bit to an agent you're considered a noob by some people.
The opposite was considered two years ago a crazy thing to say. I'm glad this changed and people using ai don't have to hide in the closet anymore for doing so.
Re: The Safari MCP server for web developers
#26But does Apple really care about web developers? How do you test on Safari if you don’t have Apple devices? How difficult can it be for Apple to make barebones virtual machines with just Safaris?
Just like you would test IE on Linux or OS X.
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Re: The Safari MCP server for web developers
#27> There are many ways to build for the web, both with and without AI. If AI is a part of your workflow, we think this tool will help make it even more productive. And if it isn’t, that’s OK too. Crazy thing to say in 2026 where if you write code and not delegate every bit to an agent you're considered a noob by some people.
The opposite was considered two years ago a crazy thing to say. I'm glad this changed and people using ai don't have to hide in the closet anymore for doing so.
When have people using AI to develop ever had to hide in any closet? It's the most public "new hotness" ever.
Re: The Safari MCP server for web developers
#28Building something similar for Chrome and Firefox browsers: https://github.com/DO-SAY-GO/WebCLI - a CLI not MCP. Tho am considering MCP for distribution, even tho agents love the CLI and the proof demos speak for themselves. The reason I did not include Safari was there wasn't enough parity between its Safaridriver surface and what Bidi/CDP give now. Safari is doing Bidi tho, iirc. So ...soon perhaps. ;) ;p xx ;p
Not sure you want to hear this but there is 0% chance I will ever bring up a product with a vulgar name at work.
Re: The Safari MCP server for web developers
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just like you would test IE on Linux or OS X.
### THIS FILE IS AUTOMATICALLY CONFIGURED ### # Changes to this file will not be preserved. # This file will not be recreated if removed. X-Repolib-Name: Microsoft Edge Types: deb URIs: https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/edge-stable Suites: stable Components: main Architectures: amd64 Architectures: amd64 Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/microsoft-edge.gpg Come on! The year is not 2001.
I said IE, not Edge.
Re: The Safari MCP server for web developers
#30I'd personally suggest Playwright-CLI: https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-cli It works much faster for me than the MCP servers I tried.
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