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You might be surprised to find that that is not the case in Europe. In fact, apart from China and English-influenced countries, very few countries around the world use dots for decimal points: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator#Countries_us...
But English and Chinese influenced countries comprise a significant portion of the world. The top 3 most populous countries use dots for decimals (China, India, United States) according to your link.
Hetzner Apple Mac Mini Offering
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Re: Hetzner Apple Mac Mini Offering
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Safari (not WebKit specifically; the rest of the browser) relies on OS libraries. Those libraries would have to be reimplemented for other OSes. I don't mean that that would be an impediment to porting; Apple have done this before—Safari 5 was available for Windows. (And interestingly, vice-versa, IE5 was available for macOS!) What I mean is that the differences in implementation of these OS libraries would mean that…
You're not wrong, but in practice I'd imagine >99% of bugs are in the rendering / webkit layer, not in the OS integration layer. Sure, if you're making a plugin that plays with bookmarks or 'Read Later', you'd likely run afoul of the issues you mention. But most web devs are concerned just about browser compatibility of rendering their web-app. In this context, as long as web page rendering and JS engine is identical…
Or, for that matter, there could be certain exposed -webkit CSS selectors that are really just features of some or another macOS rendering-layer framework, with no Windows equivalent — the same way that IE's ancient CSS "filters" were really just exposed DirectX features (e.g. filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.blur). For these cases, testing on "Safari on Windows" would essentially just get you what testing in Chrome on Windows already gets you (unless Apple created an entire software renderer that brings in all of macOS's Quartz and all its subsidiary libraries as a big ol' polyfill.)
The point at which Safari is guaranteed to work like it does on macOS, is the point at which you're bringing in a polyfill consisting of 99% of macOS's frameworks. May as well bring in the last 1% as well, and call it a VM. (Ideally a thin-as-possible paravirtualized VM where the display driver is written to directly make DirectX calls, etc. — but VM client software is already pretty good at providing these sorts of drivers.)
Re: Hetzner Apple Mac Mini Offering
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Apple does not believe there are any electronics out side of Apple, nor that there are any web browsers outside of Safari. Apple believe everyone on the plant should only ever use Apple hardware, and Apple Software, why would anyone not want to run over priced low quality products?
Meanwhile the CEO uses a windows machine with outlook.
Re: Hetzner Apple Mac Mini Offering
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
Safari (not WebKit specifically; the rest of the browser) relies on OS libraries. Those libraries would have to be reimplemented for other OSes. I don't mean that that would be an impediment to porting; Apple have done this before—Safari 5 was available for Windows. (And interestingly, vice-versa, IE5 was available for macOS!) What I mean is that the differences in implementation of these OS libraries would mean that…
You're not wrong, but in practice I'd imagine >99% of bugs are in the rendering / webkit layer, not in the OS integration layer. Sure, if you're making a plugin that plays with bookmarks or 'Read Later', you'd likely run afoul of the issues you mention. But most web devs are concerned just about browser compatibility of rendering their web-app. In this context, as long as web page rendering and JS engine is identical…
Re: Hetzner Apple Mac Mini Offering
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apple does not believe there are any electronics out side of Apple, nor that there are any web browsers outside of Safari. Apple believe everyone on the plant should only ever use Apple hardware, and Apple Software, why would anyone not want to run over priced low quality products?
Meanwhile the CEO uses a windows machine with outlook.
https://www.windowslatest.com/2017/12/12/apples-ceo-tim-cook...
Also:
https://www.pcworld.com/article/439674/oops-tim-cook-tweets-... (2014)
Re: Hetzner Apple Mac Mini Offering
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Why not Browserstack?
Debugging iOS-Safari issues on a web page requires: 1) Access to a Desktop Mac and a Desktop Safari. 2) An iOS device. The Safari debugger recognizes a plugged-in iOS device and then allows to debug the iOS safari remotely. That's the only reliable way to find iOS specific JS or CSS issues. Browserstack alone does not help, unfortunately AFAIR.
Re: Hetzner Apple Mac Mini Offering
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Why not Browserstack?
Debugging iOS-Safari issues on a web page requires: 1) Access to a Desktop Mac and a Desktop Safari. 2) An iOS device. The Safari debugger recognizes a plugged-in iOS device and then allows to debug the iOS safari remotely. That's the only reliable way to find iOS specific JS or CSS issues. Browserstack alone does not help, unfortunately AFAIR.
Re: Hetzner Apple Mac Mini Offering
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I have a macOS VM under VMWare running on Windows. It wasn't that difficult, found some guides online by googling obvious search words. The only thing I haven't gotten to work yet is the App Store, but I saw a guide for that, just haven't done it yet. You won't get graphics acceleration btw, but CPU performance is fine. I believe the trickiest bit was running a macOS serial generation app and copying that value into…
Enjoy it while it last, in 3 or 4 years Apple will drop Intel macOS support.