Web testing for the Apple iPhone

There's just a few more days to go before the iPhone is released. There's a lot of good hype going on about it and many companies are getting ready for it as well. If by any chance you desgin mobile websites or just any website and would like to know how your design would fair on the iPhone's browser and screen, you should download iPhoney.

iPhony is an iPhone Web simulator for designers, created by MarketCircle. It's free to download at the following address:

http://www.marketcircle.com/iphoney/

Well, enjoy and be ready for what is said to be the next stage of mobile revolution!

-- JPGeek

Tweaking Safari with Debug Menu

Ever wished you could tweak Safari the same way it's possible to tweak Firefox and other browsers currently on the market? Well, my exploration of Safari continued. I discovered that Safari has a debug menu that could be used to do quite a number of things such as disable RSS (yeah, well I never use that feature, so I don't need it to bloat my browser) or enable some other features. In order to activate the debug menu, run the following command on your OS X terminal:

defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu YES

Next, restart Safari. The new menu options set will appear on the menu bar. It's got a few fun things that am sure most of us would like to try out.

-- JPGeek.

Safari's new Web Inspector

Safari just got itself a brand new Web Inspector. I just downloaded the nightly build of the Safari engine (WebKit) to test the new inspector and all I have to say is: it's magnificent! It's beaten any web debugging / development tool I have ever used. Those are my first impressions though. I haven't had a chance to do a lot with it. The other stuff that I have noticed is the User Interface. As usual, designed with the user in mind and the Apple way. Here's a screenshot:



Take note that WebKit is available both for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. You can download the nightly build here: http://www.webkit.org. After installing WebKit, you will need to activate the inspector. To do this, on OS X, type the following in your terminal:

defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitDeveloperExtras -bool true.

Restart Safari, open a website of your interest and right click on the page. In the contextual menu, choose the "Inspect Element" option.


-- JPGeek.