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Kelsey
Kelsey

Reputation: 47766

Are the any free windows emulators available to test web sites against an iPhone?

I am looking for iPhone emulation software to test a couple of internal web applications against the iPhone. There are a few quirks occuring with iPhone users that would like to fix but I am unsure how to test them.

For example one of the issues is that numbers are showing up as phone number links on the iPhone which 99% of the time is incorrect. On regular Windows Safari this doesn't occur.

There are also formatting issues with fonts and spacing that occur on no other broswer except the iPhone version of Safari.

Emulator must be free and work under Windows. Suggestions?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1830

Answers (3)

Samuel
Samuel

Reputation: 5469

Another iphone webkit emulator :

http://www.genuitec.com/mobile/

Build by genuitec, the creators of myEclipse. It's better than using safari desktop as it's a modified version of webkit in order to have the same behavior than safari iPhone. But in reality, it's not 100% equal !

Upvotes: 0

ceejayoz
ceejayoz

Reputation: 180137

If you're looking for general WebKit issues, Safari 4 and Chrome use fairly similar builds of WebKit. Most issues can be troubleshooted in that manner.

For things like the automated tel://########## hyperlinking, though, you're likely SOL. That's an iPhone specific customisation of WebKit. It can be disabled (details in someone else's answer here) but you're not going to be able to test for the behaviour on Windows.

Upvotes: 0

bas
bas

Reputation: 583

There is a Windows build of WebKit embedded inside an iPhone-like shape called Blackbaud iPhone Browser Simulator. You can download it here http://labs.blackbaud.com/NetCommunity/article?artid=662

Upvotes: 1

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